Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timesman Herbert Matthews, Castro made a dangerous trip to the foothills, got invaluable publicity from the U.S.'s most prestigious paper. Other reporters, getting past army checkpoints as "engineer" or "sugar planter," had to make an arduous climb, but they were rewarded with long, friendly chats. To oblige CBS, the rebels took in 160 lbs. of television equipment. One big-paper correspondent on his way up was crestfallen to discover a reporter from Boy's Life on his way down...
...there were a conspiracy to get all parody over and done with as quickly as possible, CBS chose the same night, same time slot, to run Jack Benny's long-celebrated Autolight, a 15-minute spoof of Gaslight, the 1944 melodrama in which a Victorian villain tries to drive his wife insane. Filmed in 1952, Autolight was impounded by the courts after M-G-M complained that Benny's hoked-up version hewed so closely to the original that it violated copyright laws. Benny fought the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, March...
...Steel Hour (CBS...
Playhouse 90 (CBS...
...World of Ideas (CBS...