Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser sent his No. 1 military man, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, scurrying off to neighboring Saudi Arabia to patch things up with oil-rich King Saud. Earlier in the week, sitting before the cameras of Britain's Independent Television News-as Russia's Khrushchev did for CBS in the U.S.-Nasser sent an amiable grimace into several million British living rooms. "I'm sorry," he said, "about that period of bad relations between Britain and Egypt. We hope that both countries will work for good relations in order to be friendly again." As an earnest...
...made a comeback this week. Harry S. Truman, star, supporting cast, musical soloist and partial scriptwriter of TV's memorable tour of the White House in 1952, put on another good one-man show this week on CBS's Let's Take a Trip. He was the calm and canny host for a TV preview of the $1,750,000 Harry S. Truman Library in home-town Independence...
...Commander in Chief took command as soon as the CBS cast and crew of 30 arrived last week to set up the show. The show could not be telecast live on Sunday as it has been for two years, said he, "because this is the Bible belt, and you'd never get anybody to work on Sunday." Producer James Colligan agreed to record the show in advance on Ampex visual tape. Just before rehearsals began, a piano arrived from Kansas City; it was the one given to Truman in the White House by James C. Petrillo and his American...
...stint and his Monday-evening Talent Scouts. In the Wednesday farewell, televised from his Virginia estate, Airman Godfrey, flying into camera in a helicopter, introduced such hearthside pals as Jocko the donkey, Petie the monkey, Goldie the palomino and a poodle named Chippie. He also read a wire from CBS TV President Merle Jones: "Please don't give up any other shows." To a Manhattan interviewer, Godfrey earlier confided some of his trials: "Every Wednesday night I'd go out of the stage door and every week there was this bunch of nuts-that's what they...
Newspapers have thrown their pages wide open to the news, gossip and pictures of TV that flood in from wire services and network publicity mills. CBS alone churns out 100,000 stories a year for 1,200 publications, and the network even plants finished feature articles in dailies and some magazines. In addition to Sunday supplements-often modeled on TV Guide, the most successful magazine (circ. 5,315,659) started since the war-most newspapers each day feature syndicated TV critics and program previews, give free rein to scores of local' TV columnists. Though many newspapers balked for years...