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Duggan was far from silenced. He still had a sports column in the Chicago American at $250 a week. And, five days later, he was back with a new sponsor and a new vote of confidence, hired to do two half-hour sports shows at $200 each over ABC's station WBKB-TV. Said Duggan, by now used to landing on his feet: "I'm not trying to be a crusader on sports. I'm more like an umpire, calling the plays...
Caucus leaders of the group agreed last night that all members will meet a half-hour before their Sunday debate to pick their own side of the question, "Is Har-Sabotaging its Football Team...
...Brooch appeared on Lux Video Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS) in a TV adaptation written by Author Faulkner. Some changes had been made: the young man no longer kills himself, and his wife is no longer a tramp. The story emerged as a perfectly adequate but hardly startling half-hour's TV entertainment, starring Dan Duryea, Sally Forrest and Mildred Natwick...
...done, Berns sprinkles his listeners with inexpensive gimmicks instead of assaulting them with costly productions. Typical is Time Capsule (Thursday, 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), a half-hour potpourri of life in the U.S. It is tape-recorded and filed with the Museum of Natural History, in case anyone wants a playback 100 years from now. This week Berns spent about two hours lining up the guests for his next show: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend...
...leisure greatly reminiscent of the English colleges on which the Houses were patterned. At Leverett, for example, the unhurried riser can still get a complete breakfast as late as 9:30 a.m. on weekdays, and 10 a.m. Sundays. Most other Houses close a full half-hour earlier...