Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marie Torre's well-kept secret is the name of the CBS "spokesman" who told her that Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." After this statement appeared in a Torre column in January 1957, Songstress Garland filed a $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. Subpoenaed as a witness, Columnist Torre refused to name her informant, pleading the confidential relationship of reporter to source.* Last month...
...feel brave about it," she said. "But it's just easier to serve the period of detention than go for the rest of my life having something like this on my conscience. I would be betraying my entire profession if I revealed my source." Why did not the CBS spokesman come forward now and give her the right to reveal his name? Said she: "The guy could lose his job." There was some comfort for her in the approving messages and gifts from well-wishers all over the U.S., including TV Comic Jackie Gleason's chocolate cake with...
...that long-suffering Backstage Wife, realized at last that her husband was really in love with her. Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President Arthur Hull Hayes: "Ever since 1954, we have...
Timex All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.)." Just like the three previous all-star jam sessions. A real hep crew-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa-blasting out cool tunes...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Sent to Europe on assignment, a magazine editor gets a last-minute order from his wife: "And Bring Home a Baby." A true story of a happy adventure in an international tangle of red tape...