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...balance ups with downs, Doris plays mermaid for her salty dad, Arthur Godfrey, who makes his painless and pointless film debut as the skipper of a glass bottom boat for sea-sighters. At one point Godfrey takes up his ukulele to strum a Doris Day hit tune of yore. The old pro may believe that reminiscing is as good a way as any to buoy up spirits aboard a doomed ship...
What underlies this developing similarity of worship is the liturgists' conviction that the Sacrament and the preached word belong together-a fact brought home by research into the origins and forms of the rites used by the early Christians. Eventually, suggests Benedictine Liturgist Godfrey Diekmann of St. John's Abbey in Minnesota, Protestants and Catholics may be able to share, as an alternative to existing rites, a common form of Eucharistic prayer, possibly based on a simple liturgy used in the early church...
...Oscars of the record business-with Winners Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, the Anita Kerr singers, Duke Ellington and his band. Guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet perform the winning numbers. Bob Hope, Perry Como, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Dana and Henry Mancini are also on hand...
...MAGIC OF BROADCASTING (CBS, 10-p.m.). Arthur Godfrey takes a long and nostalgic look at the early days of radio (he was "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist" in 1929) and the precocious but troubled babyhood of television. Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby and John Scott Trotter are among the guests. Old film clips and recordings extend the reach back; some current behind-the-scenes footage brings it up to date again...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). TV tries hard to forget its former favorites, but here's a cup of kindness for Auld Prime Timers Arthur Godfrey and Sid Caesar...