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World's Greatest Audience. To satisfy network needs, and develop competent hacks and sparkling geniuses, both NBC and CBS have plans to dragnet the nation for new writing talent. NBC's plan, more ambitious, aims at attracting established fiction writers to TV and developing new ones. Five well-known U.S. novelists, including James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, are already interested. NBC also plans to put a dozen dramatists on staff at regular salaries, hoping to prove that security can quicken the dramatic muse even more than hunger...
...that must be solved in determining from what exchange, and in precisely what sequence of numerals, the kidnaper is phoning his instructions. The film ends in the customary blaze of guns, and Kelly is happily reunited with his family. But the film's considerable effect, like that of Dragnet, is built up largely from the detailed, absorbing explanation of the routines, not in this case of police work, but of a telephone-communications center...
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...recent trend, e.g., Dragnet, is to turn TV plays into movies, using the TV shows as publicity buildups. Several studios and independents are bidding for Patterns, the TV play about big business that got a repeat performance fortnight ago on Kraft TV Theater (TIME. Feb. 21). Seven other TV shows have either been made into movies or are under consideration, including Marty, Dear Phoebe, Halls of Ivy and Waterfront...
...Medic, which has brought Dragnet's style to the men in white, gets attention from both the wags and the woebegone. Typical gags: 1) when Medic is made into a movie, it will be called A Scar Is Born or I Dismember Mama; 2) a New Yorker reported TV reception so good that he caught an intestinal virus from watching Medic...