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Allen's rise to TV stardom has been rapid. Until one year ago he was best known as a disc jockey in Los Angeles. There he built up a faithful following for his midnight radio show and, by popular demand, dispensed more chatter than records. His fans included workers in Hollywood's film industry, and, because of comments from them (Groucho Marx: "the freshest and most promising thing I've seen in radio in a long time"), CBS began to take notice...
...Sarnoff. So far this year, RCA stock has risen from 16⅜ to 21½, CBS fallen from 33 to 25½. This trend is the more remarkable because six months ago RCA was apparently caught flat-footed when the Federal Communications Commission decided to license the CBS "whirling disc" system for commercial broadcasting. RCA promised a much better system, one that existing TV sets would receive in black & wnite (unlike the CBS method) without any change in the sets. But the color RCA showed FCC last fall was mushy and CBS's was clear. FCC decided...
Rayburn & Finch Show (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS) belongs in the radio comic tradition established years ago by such zany funnymen as the late Colonel Stoopnagle. After five years as Manhattan disc jockeys, Rayburn & Finch have come to their unsponsored network show with a handful of records, a good deal of acerbic humor and a better-than-usual collection of puns. Starting off with a fictitious award called a "Ludwig," from a fictitious radio & TV magazine called See Hear!, the comics go on to rib educational shows with "Science Speaks," a program designed to "push back the frontiers of science-right...
...California cop (Van Heflin), checking a routine complaint about a house prowler, takes a shine to the complainant (Evelyn Keyes), a nervously bored housewife whose well-to-do and aging husband works as an all-night disc jockey. Loyal but lonely, she resists Heflin as long as she can, finally succumbs to him in an affair carried on against the background of her husband's chirrupy voice plugging commercials on the radio...
...black to white and, gradually, back to black again, simply by reversing the polarity (i.e., changing a positive picture to a negative picture) on the camera. The falling and rising water pail was more complicated. A tiny pail the size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which the background was painted. By reversing the disc, the pail seemed to fall up or down; by stopping both disc and drum, the pail seemed to stop in midair. Garroway's "girl multiplier" is still on the top secret...