Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Lucy and Desi charge off to the north woods with Howard Duff and Ida Lupino...
Holiday, U.S.A. (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Versatile Folk Singer-Actor Burl Ives sounds off on American song styles from 19th century tinkle-tankle to the latest Broadway specimens...
...along the network grapevine. Gossip said the job was going begging, and many a hopeful hotshot managed to get his name noised about as a candidate. But the yearners never had much of a chance. Last week one of the plushiest producing jobs in the television business went to CBS Vice President Hubbell Robinson Jr., 53, the man who had dreamed up the Ford series in the first place...
...more than eased the pain of losing out in a power squeeze at CBS-TV (Robinson was passed over for the network presidency, then for its No. 2 spot, executive vice president). Said Robinson: "I will also be directly concerned with the job of creation, a thing I was getting away from at CBS." A short, suave, Brown-educated ('27) emigre from Madison Avenue, "Hub" Robinson has long believed in the motto "Mass with Class." and at CBS he went far toward making it work. He was responsible for Playhouse 90, the Phil Silvers Show, Twentieth Century. He prompted...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff...