Word: cover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXAMINING the status of television in the troubled first weeks of another season, SHOW BUSINESS turns at cover length to the Private Eyes. Two seasons back, the giveaways dominated the air, and last year the major switch was out of the claustrophobic isolation booth into the West's wide-open spaces. This year, while the Westerns still lead the race for ratings and no week passes without at least a couple of "specials," the Private Eye is muscling in as the top gun. As for the cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin says the five big Eyes ran gun-first...
...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...
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...time out to think becomes tedious. It was different on radio, says Writer-Producer Dick Carr, a veteran of radio's Richard Diamond and now a writer on TV's Staccato. "In radio you could always use a narrator to tie up the loose ends. I could cover any hour TV show today in one half-hour of radio with the use of narration. The hour TV show has room for only a half-hour of ideas...
...condemning--no, not even condemning--expressing "grave concern" over "reported" repressions in Tibet. The Communist Chinese, chastened by this stinging rebuke, will no doubt immediately withdraw their forces, and the bespectacled Dalai Lama will soon make a triumphal re-entry into Lhasa, with Life magazine on the scene to cover the event with the same breathless fervor it devoted to his "miraculous escape...