Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Ballet's version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker has become something of a Manhattan institution at Christmas time, and CBS chose it for its only live color broadcast of 1958. Once past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline...
Orange & Cotton Bowl Games (CBS, 12:45 p.m. until finish). Oklahoma v. Syracuse at Miami's Orange Bowl. For an added fillip, whatever remains of the Cotton Bowl (Air Force v. T.C.U.) in Dallas...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The very fact that this show has survived its title (Goodbye . . . But It Doesn't Go Away) suggests that it is worth a look. An oldie (first produced 31/2 years ago) about an old problem: a traveling salesman trying to figure out why life has not paid him the commission he thinks he deserves...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Adapted from Pierre (The Bridge over the River Kwai) Boulle's novel, Face of a Hero should at least prove the novelist's versatility as it switches from the Far East to small-town melodrama in the U.S. South. With Jack Lemmon, James Gregory and Rip Torn...
...News of '58 (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). A year of front-page stories retold by a capable team of reporters...