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...page exhibit weighing almost seven pounds, Pan Am set forth to the Civil Aeronautics Board its claims to four coast-to-coast routes and five main north-&-south domestic routes. Pan Am's main argument: domestic lines can now offer passage to foreign points from interior U.S. cities. If Pan Am can land only at gateway coastal cities, it will not be able to compete on equal terms...
Ever since Fred Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
...fortify his position with the U.S. public, Sablon began over CBS this week (Sun., 5:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.) a series of 15-minute chanson-and-chatter programs. For the first time a coast-to-coast audience could savor the bilingual ambiguities of such Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...
...mike" from 6 to 7:45 a.m. over Manhattan's WABC. Five days a week in winter he follows up with "an hour and a half of the same goo" piped to Washington's WTOP. And six days a week, he does an 11 to 11:30 coast-to-coast show over CBS. His weekly total on the air: 21 hours. His weekly income: more than...
...first half-hour program made it evident that Manhattan's WOR had a kid-show formula that would give the precocious Quiz Kids a run for their money. This week, after five trial broadcasts, the Mutual show goes coast-to-coast (Saturday, June 15, 8:30 p.m. E.D.S.T...