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...dandy of country music, and showing a late-hour (10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) 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...
Manhattan's Radio City buzzed last week with news of a major defection: J. Fred Muggs, 4½, the world's most successful chimpanzee, would quit NBC's Today on March 1 after spending all but ten months of his life as Dave Garroway's ape-in-the-hole. First reports said that Muggs was retiring because of laggard health and old age. "Nonsense," said an NBC spokesman. "He's leaving Garroway for the same reason Nanette Fabray left Sid Caesar. He thinks he can make more money...
...short-wave relay from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie and the NBC staff chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs...
...only a BBC voice and some foggy images made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...
...there were enough human bloopers to make up for the lack of old-fashioned fun. John Daly reported: "Mr. Rostrum stands in recess." Will Rogers Jr. (CBS) wound up a Stevenson interview with "Thank you very much, Governor Harriman" (Retorted Adlai: "Goodbye, Dave Garroway!"). Crooner Johnny Desmond muffed the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner, and NBC's Monitor introduced Mrs. Roosevelt as "Eleanor Stevenson...