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...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Art Carney, Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean join Jackie in a Christmas special about the Poor Soul who takes a dreamy excursion through the land of make believe. Repeat...
Hope laces his wit with good taste. He may sometimes play the ogling goof, but he is essentially a monologist who portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed...
...Network of the Stars," gets slightly more than $50,000 per average prime-time minute; NBC asks $46,000 and ABC $43,000. The leading shows cost even more-and it was only recently that CBS managed to sell all its commercial spots on the Skelton and Gleason shows for December. By contrast, top programs on NBC and ABC have been virtually sold out since September...
Other departments--English, Government, and Chemistry for instance--may postpone the question until after Christmas. "Knowing the tenor of my department, I'm sure they'll put off crossing that bridge until they have to face it," Andrew M. Gleason, chairman of the Mathematics Department said Monday...
Massachusetts' former Senator Leverett Saltonstall enjoys Welk and Jackie Gleason as well. New York's Mayor John Lindsay seems to find time for nothing but news between the Today and Tonight shows. Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty rates news and sports his favorites, then Daktari, Gunsmoke and tapes of his own weekly interview show...