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...Flying North American F-100C Super-sabre jets, six U.S. Air Force pilots raced 2,325 miles from Victorville, Calif, to Philadelphia in the annual Bendix Trophy race. Winner: Colonel Carlos M. Talbott. Average speed: 610.7 m.p.h., well under the 652.5 m.p.h. coast-to-coast record set by an F-84F Thunderstreak jet last March...
...Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional offices to find out what the networks will be sending. Says Quirk: "We're kind of a little A.P., just for television...
Guide to Stardom. To program listings (printed in large type, thus easily read by TV's dim light), TV Guide adds a light diet of gossip ("Sheree North was tossed off a coast-to-coast interview program when she arrived sans makeup when the show was one-third over.") and short features on TV performers. But it is neither a fan magazine nor a catchall for pressagents' puffs. Networks often do not like what TV Guide says about their shows, but they respect...
...coast-to-coast trip took only about four minutes; the rest of the hour-and-a-half show never strayed too far from the routine (with one exception), although it continued to jump from East to West Coast and up to Canada for a scene from Julius Caesar at the Stratford Festival. The exception was Cantinflas, the famed Mexican comic, fighting a small (700-lb.) bull in a Tijuana bullring. Cantinflas came out wearing a crushed, narrow-brimmed fedora and pants that hovered uncertainly halfway down his hips. The bull took one look at him and seemed...
...Hasty Pudding Club and Harvard in '33, Hewlett went into the Depression-years theater. When he had a job it was usually with GEORGE ABBOTT, Damn Yankees' director. Actor Hewlett played bits and served as Abbott's assistant stage director in Boy Meets Girl, toured coast-to-coast with the Brother Rat road show, understudying Tom Ewell, current Broadway star. In Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Hewlett portrayed a newsman...