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...Nielsen rating, covering an earlier period, tends to confirm the Trendex findings. It lists only two NBC shows -at fifth and sixth -in the top ten. Almost as painful to NBC was the news that 1) the Colgate Variety Hour, unable to dent CBS's popular Ed Sullivan Show, had asked to be released from its NBC contract, and 2) NBC's Milton Berle (Tues. 8 p.m.) had his stranglehold on that hour broken for the first time when his rating dipped below that of his CBS opposition, Phil Silvers...
Mechanic at Work. When the Presi dent was told about the flood of information that was pouring out of the hospital, he told Hagerty approvingly: "I understand you're giving them everything. That's fine with me." Last week the press added its own vote of confidence. Said United Press's Merriman (Thank You, Mr. President) Smith, tough-talking dean of White House correspondents: "Hagerty has done a truly phenomenal job in Denver." Said veteran Eddie Folliard, Washington Post and Times Herald reporter who has been covering the capital since Calvin Coolidge was President: "Hagerty...
...Tender Trap. In Birmingham, police declared their 25-year-old armored car outmoded after they shot it up with carbine rounds in a test, watched the bullets easily rip through one side of the car, dent the other...
...boom by requiring at least a 2% down payment on previous no-down-payment loans. In Manhattan, major banks also cut down on credit by hiking interest rates on loans to brokers to carry margin accounts. But these actions were not likely - or indeed intended - to make a big dent in 1955's prosperous economy...
...came from off-Broadway. Last season's white hope, the Phoenix Theater, turned a rather dull grey -though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't, the largely uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival-in Stark Young's admirable new translation-of Chekhov...