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...Government's three-year-old freeze on new TV stations, said FCC Chairman Wayne Coy, will probably be lifted within six months. Even then, cities without stations (e.g., Denver, Des Moines, Corpus Christi) will probably not get them built for another year at least-until FCC has had a chance to screen all the applicants. But in five years, the U.S. should have 1,500 TV stations, v. 171 now; in ten years, said Coy, there should...
...weekdays 4:15 P-M)-, ABC), transcribed at Los Angeles' Marriage License Bureau, turns loose an exclamatory interviewer named Bob Moon ("You say you're a handbag manufacturer!") on a succession of soon-to-be-wed couples. The ensuing chitchat, enlivened by gushing superlatives, arch evasions and coy giggles, makes no major contribution to the art of man-on-the-street interviewing...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Luigi Infantine, tenor; Carlo Badioli, bass; Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Antonio Cas-sinelli, bass; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Barber fans, used to hearing Rosina's arias trilled airily by a coy soprano, will be surprised to hear the role sung here by a more mature-sounding mezzo - as Rossini wrote it. Mezzo Simionato brings it off beautifully; so does Baritone Taddei as Figaro. Conductor Previtali keeps it sparkling throughout. Recording: excellent...
...coin-flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes place in the never-never land of Hollywood farce...
...York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy & Co., I. Miller (shoes) and Nelson Rockefeller...