Word: formations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned the trick in 1947 over Los Angeles station KTLA, and Pantomime Quiz has been on and off TV ever since. There have been few changes in format. M.C. Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention...
...lack of Negroes on Graham's headquarters staff (one was hired last week) and the absence of what some Negro leaders call "social content" in Graham's sermons are cited as the chief reasons. Slum districts are likewise unrepresented. Explained one Henry Street pastor: "The crusade format would not touch our people...
...audience just why millions have been getting up at 7 a.m. five days a week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy ways, his oleaginous grin, and a no-ulcer format thickly populated with bosomy fiddlers. Although his corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since the old cow had twins"), Dean is, in the words of an associate, "photogenic, amiable, happy-go-lucky and a nipple feeder-that is, he knows little outside...
...three conferences will follow the same general format. Both public and closed sessions will be held, with a 75 cent admission charge being made at the public sessions of the two Summer School conferences to all who do not hold Summer School Privilege Cards...
...daily show, and last week Wright considered suing a California station for taking over WPAT's evening program title, Gaslight Revue, without permission. But he also encourages imitation. Says Wright: "We are in contact with 30 stations in the U.S. and Canada who are interested in our format." WPAT gives them advice, and for small fees will help in setting up similar musical oases in the yakety-yak radio desert. Such clients range from Miami's WSKP to a station being built in Manila...