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...nation, network TV stations had shrugged off the summer doldrums to come alive in the Middle East crisis. They had sacrificed fat revenues from sponsored shows to cover the U.N. debates, speaker by speaker. Such popular programs as CBS's The Verdict Is Yours, NBC's Dragnet and ABC's Andy Williams Show were cut off or canceled outright. Expensive evening hours were given over to news analysis...
Married. Jack Webb, 37, petroform cinemactor (The D.I.), creator and star of radio and TV's Dragnet: and Jackie Loughery (rhymes with Crockery), 28, Flatbush-born Miss United States of 1952, now a TV and cinema starlet; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress-Songstress Julie [Cry Me a River] London); in Van Nuys, Calif...
...also to become accustomed to hearing of newspapers being seized by police, to seeing politically controversial books being sold under the counter, to seeing anti-Semitic slogans (A bas les juifs!) scrawled on walls. To live in France today is, in some neighborhoods, to take the rafle (police dragnet) for granted, to pass quickly by when the black wagons swing into the curb and the burly cops close in on a cafeé and tap each customer for his papers. It is to read, in the influential Le Monde, Editor Beuve-Meéry's melancholy series Simple Thoughts...
...Williams and William (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) Inge; and from novelists such as James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, Irving (Lust for Life) Stone. It owns or represents such TV shows as Wagon Train, Tales oj Wells Fargo, Jack Benny, Ozzie and Harriet, Alfred Hitchcock, Dragnet and This Is Your Life. Revue Productions Inc., one of M.C.A.'s subsidiaries, is Hollywood's biggest producer of TV films, accounts for an estimated 25% of all television films. Another subsidiary, Management Corp. of America, bought Paramount's pre-1948 movie backlog several weeks...
...thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...