Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the TV era arrived, Amos 'n' Andy also became an all-Negro TV show on CBS. The filmed series lasted on the network only two years, though it is now being seen on individual stations. Since 1954 the famed pair have had to share radio time with guest stars and recorded music on CBS's Amos 'n' Andy Music Hall. But on last week's anniversary show, they fondly conjured up the years when Amos 'n' Andy were going so strong that car thieves found easy pickings during the program...
...Twentieth Century: To explore one crisis in U.S. education, CBS cameramen and reporters visited Bridgeport, Conn, and spent five weeks with the Class of '58 of Warren Harding High School. The frustrating question, not only at Harding but at most U.S. high schools: Why do two-thirds of the brightest graduates, with IQs at least equal to it, fail to go on to college? The answers were not new-lack of money or initiative, intense competition for a handful of college scholarships-but they were vividly personalized. By prolonged exposure to the camera crews, Harding's students...
Twentieth Century: In CBS's Gandhi, the scrawny, jug-eared little man in the white loincloth looked as Author John Gunther once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the worshiping, hysterical throngs on the mass pilgrimage to the sea to carry out a plan of passive resistance during the British salt monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people...
Conquest: CBS's science report showed the first pictures ever taken of actual atoms-electronically magnified 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 times and falling in lacy, snowflake patterns on the point of an extra-sharp pin. But the show's most stirring segment was an open-heart operation filmed in a University of Minnesota hospital. The patient: a pretty five-year-old blue baby named Debbie, who was wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator...
...CBS star also ruled politics out of bounds for such interlopers as Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and his predecessor, Godfrey's former good friend Charlie Wilson: "As far as I'm concerned, professional politicians are the men who should be the leaders in Washington. This business of bringing in auto and soap manufacturers is darned foolish. They simply cannot know their way around the intricacies of Government . . . Since I've learned the intricacies of the Government, I spend as much time as possible briefing Senators and Congressmen about air power as I know...