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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though The Big Surprise is produced by Louis G. Cowan Inc., Lou Cowan insists that he had nothing to do with it. Early last month, Cowan resigned from (but retained a financial interest in) his own company to go on the payroll of CBS as one of the network's resident geniuses (TIME, Aug. 22). Surprise has been largely handled by the Cowan executive vice president, Steve Carlin, who claims he can discover a further difference between the two programs. Says Carlin, with deadpan seriousness: "Despite the $100,000 payoff, The Big Surprise will not be, strictly speaking...
...science-fiction film called Man in Space. Wyatt Earp, billed as the first adult Western TV series, is aimed at achieving the quality of such films as High Noon and Shane. Warner Bros. Presents is an hour-long filmed show that will alternate adventure, romance and Western drama. M-G-M Parade will present shorts and film clips from new productions. Famous Film Festival offers 35 British movies, including such excellent ones as Great Expectations, Brief Encounter, Odd Man Out, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Red Shoes and Tight Little Island...
ATOMIC SUPERLINER, sister ship to the 53,000-ton, 2,000-passenger United States, may be plying the Atlantic by 1960. Federal Maritime Board Chairman. Clarence G. Morse, who has talked with United States Lines about a superliner to replace the 16-year-old America, predicted it would cost $100 million, take three years to build. Both the Maritime Board and U.S. Lines officials hope to install a nuclear power plant in its engine room...
MIXED-CLASS PLANES are being planned for transcontinental flights by T.W.A. (which recently led the move to cut transcontinental coach prices from $198 round trip to $160). T.W.A. wants to partition off the forward section of its Super G Constellations, load 19 coach passengers through a forward hatch, serve them no meals but give them the same fast, 8-hr, cross-country ride as first-class passengers. CAB will have to approve both price and partition...
...Always Fair Weather (M-G-M), despite its inclement title, is a sunny example of a Hollywood rarity-a song-and-dance movie with enough plot to justify its dialogue and enough needling satire to make some points. Fair Weather's good fellows who get together are Gene Kelly (also, with Stanley Donen, the film's co-director and co-dancemaster), Dan Dailey and feather-footed Michael Kidd, the dancer and choreographer, in his first film role. Returning to the U.S. when World War II ends, the three army pals, mutually jittery about the prospects of renewed civilian...