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...will reveal its backstage machinations tonight at six p.m. in a color broadcast on WHDH-TV's Dateline Boston show. Members of the HDC will give a half-hour summary of the production of the recent Theatre Workshop, by Somerset Maugham...
...final race, a half-hour later, Landau far outdistanced the pack to win the low hurdles in 23.7 seconds, with Dave Rosenthal third for the varsity...
Back in 1952 Hallmark was a series of half-hour plays of vaguely inspirational intent presided over by Sarah Churchill. Hallmark's Executive Producer Mildred Freed Alberg, then only a freelance TV scriptwriter, persuaded Actor Evans to try his famed Hamlet on TV, sat down and wrote an impressive two-hour adaptation of the play. She persuaded Hallmark Cards' canny President Joyce C. Hall to back her. In those days, two hours of Shakespeare was a heady gamble, but Evans' Hamlet was a whacking success, and Hallmark was credited with breaking TV's time barrier. Since...
...giveaway program on rival NBC (The Price Is Right), Arthur Godfrey was fighting back with a giveaway of his own-in which winners would get anything "reasonable" they asked for-plus a new format that scraps his old 60-minute simulcast for an hour of radio followed by a half-hour of straight TV. After a decade, it was his first concession that TV is a visual medium...
...steamy half-hour. Wingate bravely bowed to TV protocol and said: "It's been very pleasant." Responded his guest: "I enjoyed it very much." As the WABD switchboard began to blaze, mostly with anti-Churchill calls, Interrogator Wingate began to fume, next day talked threateningly of a libel suit. When reporters caught up with home-bound Randolph on shipboard in New York Harbor, they found him sleeping unperturbed...