Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight Eisenhower will be heard from, at secondhand, from his old friend and aide, Navy Captain Harry C. Butcher, onetime CBS vice president. Last week the Saturday Evening Post bid $175,000, highest price of the war, for serial rights to the war diary which Harry Butcher wrote from North Africa to the Rheims surrender, photographed on microfilm, and kept in a safe...
...subject seemed to have quite a lot to do with Frankie, too. He gave his bobbysox listeners an earnest preview of a film short he had just made, and of the kind of thing they can expect from him every few weeks in his Old Gold radio show (CBS, Wed., 9 p.m., E.W.T...
...CBS's even-voiced, levelheaded Charles Collingwood got ready to return from Europe for a lecture tour...
...CBS, disdaining all such fun & games, is betting that the letdown in listening to news won't last. Said CBS News Chief Paul White: "They'll listen again, and if they don't, God knows the war was fought for nothing...
This stunt sale was typical of a new radio program, Auction Show (Mon., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), thought up by chubby, energetic Dave Elman, who is full of such ideas. Elman, who has been in show business since he was six, already has one big network show, Hobby Lobby (CBS, Thurs., 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.), which has brought him $350,000 since 1937. (It features people with silly pastimes, such as inventing a pants-puller-upper, collecting baby elephant hairs, compiling unfunny jokes.) He has been trying to repeat Hobby's success ever since. Among his previous tries...