Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Godfrey summoned newsmen to the presidential suite of San Francisco's Sheraton-Palace Hotel last week and let them in on a few things. To keep CBS out of "jeopardy" over his strong views supporting manned bombers against guided missiles, said Godfrey, he has adopted a "self-imposed censorship" on his radio and TV shows. He admitted that his plans for the nation's defense-which he got down on hands and knees to illustrate with a table knife on the carpet -have already queered Godfrey himself with the Administration...
...Prince and the Pauper: For its one-night stand on the DuPont show, CBS's 90-minute version of Mark Twain's soufflé of make-believe, abounded in virtues that spell "longrun" to Hollywood-a sumptuous production, an exciting, neatly organized story, topflight performances soundly directed. Producer David Susskind, searched seven weeks in the U.S. and abroad to find a pauper (Johnny Washbrook) to match Rex (The King and I) Thompson's prince, coddled his show through three weeks of rehearsal. Amid a staggering 19 sets, Director Daniel Petrie moved his cameras and 100 players with...
Twentieth Century: Tersely titled FBI and scripted by bestselling Author Don (The FBI Story) Whitehead,* the latest edition of CBS's new documentary series bulged this week with mystery, mobsters and storied shots: closeups of Killer John Dillinger spreading his dimpled, farm-boy charm counterpoised with his hairy, half-covered corpse in the morgue; the sad-faced mourners at his funeral (where a photographer got slugged for being "disrespectful"); a Hollywood extortionist waiting on a street corner for money from Actress Betty Grable, getting caught by agents disguised as gardeners. There were absorbing glimpses of malefactors from George ("Machine...
...same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story, the Nürnberg trials. If only' some of them equal the quality of the first, CBS's Twentieth Century will be far ahead of the real one in that it can be pronounced a success...
...Trib editorial permitted itself a single understatement: "The case itself is a relatively trivial one." It grew, explained the editorial, out of "certain remarks" about Judy Garland that Columnist Torre attributed to "a CBS spokesman." Now that Singer Garland is suing CBS for $1,000,000 for those remarks, her lawyers need to know−and the Trib will not say&8722;who the spokesman was. Nowhere in its ten-column coverage did the paper report what the CBS spokesman said. The nub of his remarks: Judy "won't make up her mind about anything. We just think...