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Word: cbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Frying Friars | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...came from a goose with a bad head cold reverberates through the living rooms of America, and America listens-and watches. The Arthur Murray Party and its nasal, admittedly amateurish M.C., Kathryn Murray, have somehow waltzed into one of the top-rated spots on nighttime TV. Fortnight ago, after CBS had spent weeks advertising The Case of Dr. Mudd on Desilu Playhouse, CBS's Trendex was 18.7, the Party's a cozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Nonperformers | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...United States Steel Hour (CBS. 10-11 ` Melvyn Douglas, who was done in in The Plot to Kill Stalin, stays zestfully alive this time as a middle-aged surgeon whose appointment to a top post seems threatened by his hankering for a young model (Nancy Olson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Thurs.. Nov. 6 Playhouse 90 (CBS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The life of legendary Notre Dame Football Coach Knute Rockne, reconstructed from a cache of film that has been gathering mildew in the university's files for 27 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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