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...vivid day last week, the NBC peacock was the cynosure of every eye-fluttering peahen from the Bronx Botanical Gardens to Los Angeles' Griffith Park. On show after show, NBC's symbol of color television appeared, while announcers crowed about the network's Color Day, every show a bottled rainbow. For once the soap operas were literally purple, and even Huntley and Brinkley gave hues of the news...
...shows were once again practically the private preserve of gunslingers. Although NBC's Wagon Train topped the sorry heap with a 36.9 Nielsen, CBS grabbed off seven of the next nine places, with Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, a Red Skelton special, Dennis the Menace, Rawhide, Andy Griffith and Perry Mason. The only challengers: ABC's The Untouchables and 77 Sunset Strip, in fifth and sixth positions...
...Griffith show was but one of four new CBS comedy efforts (the others: Can did Camera, Tom Swell, Pete and Gladys) to make the top 40 shows. Other comedy attempts in what was to have been the great season of laughter include NBC's Peter Loves Mary, unfortunately fairly successful, while Bringing Up Buddy (CBS) is doing just poorly enough to give hope of its early disappearance. Another comedy casualty is Angel (CBS), whose engaging French star, Annie Farge, ought to be salvaged from the wreckage...
...weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies-has all the production values expected in an epic: full color, wide screen, 45,000 extras, ten name players (Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages at a spectacularly reduced rate. Shot on the cheap in Israel and Cyprus, Exodus cost less than $4,000,000 to put in the can and has already racked up, at reserved-seat prices ($1.50-$3.50), a record...
Center forward Ezra Griffith tallied for the Bellboys near the finish of the closely contested game. The Crimson first line then left the field for substitutes but in their absence a Pierson player caught the whole Lowell team out of position and scored an easy solo...