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...ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some other spot, time and moderator. Whimpered Steve Allen: "I feel like Edison might have felt if they turned down the electric light while they were sitting in the darkness...
...nation's "most outstanding educational television station," announced the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation last week, is San Francisco's KQED. For Program Director Jonathan Rice, the plush banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right...
...long ago, the thinkers on the RCA Victor staff were invited to invent a name for a new teen-age pop singer. Among the suggestions were "Erpsil Clevinger," "Ellie Oopman," "Cahn Edison" and "Rod Reel." None of these quite filled the bill, but the company soon hit on one that did -"Rod Lauren." Last week, big as life, Rod was climbing the charts with a pop hit called If I Had a Girl, having almost forgotten the fact that his real name is Roger Strunk...
...voiced a bit sooner. The TVA has long complained about strangely identical bids. Last May it disclosed 24 cases since 1956 of matching bids-sometimes down to a hundredth of a penny-involving 47 U.S. manufacturers. On one transformer contract, for example. General Electric, Allis-Chalmers, and Mc-Graw-Edison's Pennsylvania Transformer Division each submitted bids of $112,712; Westinghouse won the contract with a bid of $86,760. This year, competing to supply 33,000 power-line insulators, G.E. and six other companies submitted identical bids; G.E. got about 45% of the order...
...Yankee tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades, the magazine grew up as a kind of inventor's catalogue, faithfully reporting Morse's telegraph, Catling's gun, and other newfangled devices of the time. Its Manhattan office was a hangout for inventors; among them Thomas A. Edison, who showed up one day in 1877 with a package under one arm that introduced itself: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking...