Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercial that was too malodorous for Winchell (". . . decaying action of bacteria in perspiration . . ."). Winchell did not need to worry about losing Jergens' $390,000 a year. His network, ABC, rushed in and signed him to a $520,000-a-year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give a damn about the money...
...seven months on TV, Mrs. Lucas has never burned a cookie or fluffed a line, although she was "frightfully nervous when we did apple pie." CBS has imposed just two restrictions: no emphasis on brandy, rum or cooking wine, and no live food. Mrs. Lucas regards both taboos as utter nonsense: "Why, when we had lobster thermidor, I had to kill the lobsters before the program, and that's most unhealthy, you know." Next week, in the new last-word television studios CBS is opening in Manhattan, Mrs. Lucas will move into a last-word, specially built kitchen...
Peter Pan Handicap (Sat. 3:45 p.m., CBS and CBS Television...
...Louis Municipal Opera (Sat. 7 p.m., CBS) opens a summer series of light opera and musical comedy. First: selections from Henry Sullivan's new operetta Auld Lang Syne...
Theatre Guild (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS...