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...record spinners for "insulting the audience's intelligence. They are just a prostitution of radio. One in Omaha would frequently play a few bars from a Beethoven symphony, then break it off with 'We're not interested in Beethoven's greatest, but only in Como's latest...
...whiff of evil−that exquisite cliche beloved by turn-of-the-century authors from Tolstoy to Henry James. She has now been revived by a determinedly anonymous author, in an engaging and disturbing period piece. The lady is called Madame Solario, and her setting is Lake Como...
...shows, but Russ Morgan has the edge because of his vocalist, Helen O'Connell, a throaty chanteuse who knows how to take over a song and make it her own. NBC's Julius La Rosa (Sat. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) is relaxed but no real substitute for Perry Como...
...Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano (as ghosted by Sportswriter Rowland Barber), the film begins and ends with a treacly title song ("Yes! Somebody up there likes me; Whatever betide me. he'll comfort and guide me, And stand beside me right or wrong . . .") throbbingly delivered by Singer Perry Como...
...week's end the Justice Department filed its suit in Detroit (see BUSINESS). Other performing artists on commercial television, from Perry Como to Jackie Gleason, would have to concede that there is something extra in being Attorney General...