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...Minute Labyrinth. Since Texaco became sponsor in 1940, the program has introduced regular intermission features such as Opera News on the Air, Opera Quiz, and Clifton Fadiman's interviews as a roving reporter. Before that, Announcer Cross sometimes had to ad-lib for as long as 35 minutes. "Frantically reaching for ideas," he recalls, "I once described the labyrinth of paths beneath the opera house, then the cellar under the stage where the technicians were located." Another time he "dwelt thoughtfully on the numbers on the railroad cars" in which each singer would travel on tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anniversary | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Conversation (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). John Gunther and Theodore White join Clifton Fadiman in discussing "My Favorite City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...piece of ancient Greek sculpture-a golden boy on a bronze dolphin - which has lain for 2,000 years on the floor of the Aegean. Sophia is determined to sell her discovery to the highest bidder, and before long an American archaeologist (Alan Ladd) and an American millionaire (Clifton Webb) are hard in pursuit of whatever it is that Sophia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Conversation (Thurs. 8:30p.m.,NBC). Humorists S. J. Perelman and Harry Kurnitz join Host Clifton Fadiman to discuss "What I Would Do If I Had $10 Million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow's Person to Person program. Most of the "persons" on his shows never fail to begin a statement without "Assa maddera fack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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