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...involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming old statesman, Reginald Owen is urbanity itself. But neither play nor production comes to much as a whole...
...University of Southern California's Owen Cochran Coy, 66, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 200 lbs.), indefatigable chronicler of early California history (The Great Trek, Gold Days). Lumbering about his classroom or sitting in his cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...
...Chicago, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Wayne Coy told delegates of the National Association of Broadcasters that their industry had earned $460 million in 1949-10.3% more than in 1948. But a closer examination revealed some weak timbers in the profit structure. Despite the high industry-wide figure, Coy warned that 1) 91 of the nation's 97 TV stations lost money and 2) the average net income before taxes reported by 645 of some 1,500 U.S. radio stations was only $6,700. "The unpleasant prospect," said Coy, "is that the competition . . . may be too severe and some...
...this occasion, Godfrey's usually good timing was off-base as well as off-color. Just the day before, speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
...Coy concluded with a warning quotation from "an observer and teacher of many years ago." The Apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians, had said: "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners...