Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his howling nightclub fans and his recent success in MGM's Unfinished Dance, his pink stucco Hollywood house and his red Lincoln, Thomas is already so well equipped that he is not too nervous over the success of his new radio show (Fri. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T., CBS). On the air last week, radio listeners lost some of the Thomas appeal that nightclubbers admire: the calflike face, the eloquent hands, the prehensile nose ("If you're going to have a nose," he challenges, "have one! I don't see how you people go around breathing with...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, by Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel; with Vera Zorina, Jarmila Novotna, Nadine Conner, and the Westminster Choir...
Send for Shaw. Bob Shaw, who looks a little like Mickey Rooney trying to be serious, and a little older (he is 31), has practically a monopoly on big-league choral singing. He has put new life into the art in the U.S. CBS and RCA Victor own only their company names for Shaw's choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale...
...will undoubtedly be a shock-haired young man named Robert Shaw. When the last round tones of his RCA Victor Chorale conclude NBC's RCA Victor show, Shaw will just about have time to gobble his dinner, struggle into his heavy blue overcoat and dash four blocks to CBS's studios to lead the Columbia Chorale and Symphony in Beethoven's Mass in C. Two days-and eight hours of rehearsals-later, he will conduct his Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall in Bach's three-hour-long Christmas Oratorio; next night, Christmas carols for CBS...
...Bowl Games (Thurs., all networks). A wide choice: Kansas v. Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl (1:45 p.m., CBS); Penn State v. Southern Methodist in the Cotton Bowl (2:15 p.m., Mutual); Texas v. Alabama in the Sugar Bowl (2 :30 p.m., ABC); Southern California v. Michigan in the Rose Bowl (4:45 p.m., NBC); the East-West all-star championship game, in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (4:45 p.m., Mutual...