Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When three captured Allied generals are transported across Europe by their German captors, the Jericho team is sent to rescue them in "The Big Brass Contraband...
...CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS 9-11 p..m.). Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds co-star in The Rat Race (1960), Garson Kanin's story of life and love midst Manhattan's maelstrom...
...hand," says Cronkite, "but they received the critical attention." To make matters worse, by the 1964 conventions, the network competition was out of hand. Lugging their equipment with them, TV reporters swarmed over the convention floor. Quiet and restrained, Walter Cronkite tended to get lost in the crush. CBS executives became so panicked by the Huntley-Brinkley ratings that they rigged Cronkite with a new headset-one earphone tuned to the podium, the other to the control room. Their anchorman could not make much sense out of anything. "It was as bad a job as I have ever done...
...showed up at Manhattan's Ground Floor restaurant wearing her beige, green and pink Tiziani suit. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, entertains in a shocking pink Adele Simpson suit. Jacqueline Kennedy has ordered a beige-and-white wool suit from Valentino; Barbara Paley, wife of CBS Chairman William S. Paley, has ordered hers in black velvet...
When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of "appreciation" from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place, the Gleason show had become so lackluster in recent seasons that he already seemed semiretired. In the second place, Gleason turned right around and signed an $8,000,000 deal with CBS for one more season. It would be, he proclaimed, "something different" and "something better...