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...much money on radio-TV as on all other media combined. They have budgeted $1,600,000 for TV time, about $500,000 for radio-total $2,100,000. Republicans will spend some $2,200,000 for air time, 80% of it on TV. ¶ Democrats have scheduled eight half-hour shows and some 90 five-minute spots, most of which will be sandwiched between regular shows on the cheaper daytime slots. By intensive barnstorming, Democrats also hope to pick up plenty of free newscast coverage. The G.O.P. will run 15 half-hour shows, 35 five-minute shorts...
...President Frank Stanton sitting in a convention box alongside Harry Truman's, sent him rushing to his network's backstage headquarters. There Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president in charge of the coverage, was already getting up the explanation: CBS had made no commitment to show the half-hour film, actually showed the last six minutes of it after carrying four brief interviews with politicos, fill-ins by four of its commentators, and a one-minute commercial. The network, said Mickelson mildly, was simply "exercising our news judgment" in what it chose to show...
...minutes ticked slowly by, the silence was broken only by the occasional stifled whimpering of the babies strapped on women's backs. On the half-hour there arose a roar: "Afrika Maribuya!" (Africa return to us!), and the women in their bright costumes began to sway to the rhythm of Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the National Congress anthem. Their protest made, the women went away as quietly as they had come...
...Just Like Us." Report was to be a series of six half-hour filmed documentaries, to be presented by the BBC-TV in cooperation with the U.S. Information Agency. The series was farmed out to NBC, which took it on a nonprofit basis. London-born Staffer Don Cash, 46, was assigned to produce and direct it, NBC Washington Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch to do the narration. Said Cash, an old and practiced British movie hand: "We quickly decided that the best way to inform is to entertain. That meant that each subject would be taken seriously, but treated lightheartedly...
...grand piano, his large head listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated...