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...cocktail party): Did you know that in the same year Sigmund Freud wrote The Psychology of Everyday Life-1901-the Trans-Siberian Railway reached Port Arthur, W. Normann discovered the process for hardening liquid fats, the British Academy was founded, Walt Disney was born, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died...
...WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's lively adventure in a three-part series. Part 1, "The Pauper King," features Sean Scully in a dual role-Prince Edward Tudor of England and his lookalike, Pauper Tom Can-try, who change places for a taste of each other's lives...
Each Sunday night from 7:30 on, in the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, the TV screen is an electronic Valhalla in which Ben Cartwright grapples with the Smothers brothers, Walt Disney with Perry Mason. For millions of viewers, the keenest new prime-time contender is a show-biz nonentity. Nevertheless, as star of the Sam Yorty Show, the mayor of Los Angeles, at 5 ft. 9 in., is a jolly big giant...
Columbia led until well past halftime, when Princeton's Tom Tulenko and Mark Liss began to tiger ahead by naming the singer of Come On-a My House (Rosemary Clooney) and the Walt Disney character with nine lives (El Fago Baca), clinched the title by correctly identifying the format of the short-lived TV series It's a Man's World...
...prime-time entertainment; while 84% of nightly TV was done live in 1955, barely 5% of it is now. As hour-long shows came into vogue, film makers learned the knack of the two-part story, which could then be stitched together and peddled in Europe as a Walt Disney or Man from U.N.C.L.E. feature film. At the same time, TV programmers discovered that, say, a ten-year-old Danny Kaye film could outdraw a brand-new Danny Kaye variety show. From that point on, there were no impediments to a final, formal marriage...