Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...
...CBS Eliminates Quiz Shows...
...National Broadcasting Co. had no immediate comment on CBS' action. The American Broadcasting Co. said it was not affected, since it has no big-money shows in that category...
Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Playwright-Producer Rod Serling's exercise in fantasy. This one brings back that old pitchman Ed Wynn to play an old pitchman trying to outwit "Mr. Death...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...