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...Minute Labyrinth. Since Texaco became sponsor in 1940, the program has introduced regular intermission features such as Opera News on the Air, Opera Quiz, and Clifton Fadiman's interviews as a roving reporter. Before that, Announcer Cross sometimes had to ad-lib for as long as 35 minutes. "Frantically reaching for ideas," he recalls, "I once described the labyrinth of paths beneath the opera house, then the cellar under the stage where the technicians were located." Another time he "dwelt thoughtfully on the numbers on the railroad cars" in which each singer would travel on tour...
...Conversation (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). John Gunther and Theodore White join Clifton Fadiman in discussing "My Favorite City...
Conversation (Thurs. 8:30p.m.,NBC). Humorists S. J. Perelman and Harry Kurnitz join Host Clifton Fadiman to discuss "What I Would Do If I Had $10 Million...
...Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow's Person to Person program. Most of the "persons" on his shows never fail to begin a statement without "Assa maddera fack...
...interesting to note that stern Critic Fadiman himself did much to forward the cause as Headmaster of the Quiz Kids by conscientiously addressing the unseen audience as "Folks...