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Rhymes with "Think." The decline of situation comedy, only last year the most popular TV fare, is so evident that CBS is throwing it out wholesale. CBS is canceling 16 new half-hour shows. Situation Comedy Writer Lou Derman gave the reason in last week's trade sheet Variety: "We've allowed our shows to become unbearably dull, repetitious, predictable, wild and sloppy. We've ignored a public that's sick and tired of watching, story in and story out, about Bringing the Boss Home to Dinner; and Forgetting the Wife's Birthday; and Getting...
...Bertrand Russell, Actress Lillian Gish. The books and authors discussed were and continue to be uncompromisingly first class, from Aeschylus and Aristotle to Balzac and Brillat-Savarin, from Dante and Dostoevsky to Thucydides and Thackeray. Invitation to Learning is the only network program in the U.S. to devote full half-hour discussions consistently to such books as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Aquinas' Being and Essence, and Agricola's De Re Metallica...
...warm half-hour over, Dwight Eisenhower sighed, "Maybe we need air conditioning," and whisked away to the Burning Tree Club's fairways for a round with two of his favorite golfers, Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan...
...Sandwich. Today the lights are not so hot, but neither is the outlook for TV cooks. Last week Boston, hub of New England cookery, could boast only two half-hour cooking spots a week. Chicago had only two TV cooks. San Francisco, whose cooking ranks with the best in the U.S., had none. The trend was the same in other parts of the country...
...kids still love it. Our Gang, the old Hal Roach series of one-and two-reel comedies, is back again, playing on TV in 61 U.S. cities. The success of the old films has been an eye opener to TVmen. In Manhattan, shown six times weekly in half-hour shows over WPIX, they have become the most popular afternoon feature for kids in the New York City area (almost a million and a half viewers...