Word: hollenbeck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Don Hollenbeck, 49, scholarly-voiced CBS radio and TV news commentator (Sunday News Special) ; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Old Newsman Hollenbeck (the Omaha Bee-News, A.P.), was a World War II correspondent for NBC, won a special Polk memorial award for distinguished reporting as a commentator on CBS Views the News (1947-50), once got suspended for a month by ABC for remarking after a commercial (for Marlin Blades) : "The atrocity you have just heard is not a part of this program...
...oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear It Now ends with a four-to ten-minute "closeup" (last week's subject: General Douglas MacArthur...
...Take Your Word (Sun. 10:30 p.m., CBS). A new show on semantics, with Don Hollenbeck, Abe Burrows and Lyman Bry. son. Guest: Faye Emerson...