Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sliding-scale contract that pays him upwards of $150,000 yearly. Kintner frankly admits that he applied his ABC formula: canned series, westerns, private eyes-plus quizzes. He knifed Wide Wide World, Omnibus, live dramatic shows (including Kraft Theater). Says he: "I had to catch up with front-running CBS." This year, Kintner can point to a more exciting NBC season, including 200 specials, a weekly drama show (Sunday Showcase), ambitious news coverage on Khrushchev's visit. (As he had at ABC, Kintner strengthened the NBC news team.) The feeling in the TV industry is that Kintner made...
...CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Filmed in India, this sobering documentary is a careful study of one of the sociologists' most serious problems: The Population Explosion. Indian officials and Indian and U.S. religious leaders discuss the significance of the startling (49 million a year) growth in the world's population...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The irresistible force of political pressures meets what should be an immovable object: a scrupulously honest man. The Hidden Image stars Franchot Tone, Martin Gabel, Nancy Marchand and George Grizzard...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Newscaster Charles Collingwood conducts a tour of the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan, where Dr. René Dubos is conducting his own tour of The World...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rehash of one of the Western world's most disastrous defeats in the East, The Fall of China to the Communists in 1949. Pearl Buck, General Albert Wedemeyer and General David Barr are on hand to assist Narrator Walter Cronkite...