Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fiery Diva Maria Callas, her flames fairly well banked, rested in Milan before filming some jovial chit-chat for CBS Pundit Ed Murrow's TV talkathon, Small World. Meanwhile, back at her lawyers' office, things were less restful. Already soprano non grata at Milan's La Scala and Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, litigious Maria tossed a damage suit against another offending management: the Rome Opera House, which sacked her a year ago (TIME, Jan. 20, 1958) after she walked out after the first act of Norma pleading a "lowering of the voice." With a hint that...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7) Woodrow Wilson: The Fight for Peace. A retelling of President Wilson's famed, losing fight for the League of Nations. Narrator: Walter Cronkite...
...Year Gone By (CBS, 3:30-5:30 p.m.). A fat table of contents of U.S. life in 1958, as ticked off by eleven scenarists including Critic John Mason Brown, Editor Russell Lynes, Educator James B. Conant, Newscaster Howard K. Smith...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). An uninterrupted plum pudding, with Actor Victor Tory reciting Dickens, Comedian Dick Van Dyke pantomiming tree decorators, Newscaster Douglas Edwards reading the New York Sun's 1897 editorial, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tchaikovsky's delightful Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker, as staged by famed Choreographer George Balanchine. Along with 40 children, the dancers include 55 adult members of the New York City Ballet, led by Soloists Diana Adams and Allegra Kent. For viewers who need words as well, Actress June Lockhart narrates live and in color...