Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records. Last fall NBC gave 38-year-old Cole a 15-minute weekly spot, making him the first of U.S. show business' numerous and talented Negroes to star as host of his own TV network show. Launching a new weekly series (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), the network last week gave him half an hour to spread his wings...
...work with the heaps of celluloid that lie hoarded in film vaults. Last week NBC began showing how the same technique can pay off in an exciting sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment...
...week. Harry S. Truman, star, supporting cast, musical soloist and partial scriptwriter of TV's memorable tour of the White House in 1952, put on another good one-man show this week on CBS's Let's Take a Trip. He was the calm and canny host for a TV preview of the $1,750,000 Harry S. Truman Library in home-town Independence...
...Producer-Host Robert Montgomery, TV aide-de-camp to President Eisenhower, rang down the curtain on his hour-long NBC dramatic show after a seven-year run. The last play was Faust '57, a disjointed modern treatment of the classic tale about a pact with the Devil-and an ironic choice, since the program had been going to hell all season. The passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season...
...tourist-trodden Europe, many major summer music festivals have become the epicenter of a host of satellite festivals in their orbit. With the big events, e.g., Edinburgh, Salzburg, booked solid for months in advance, canny music shoppers are checking for the out-of-the-way festivals, even in the Mideast, which may be short on big-name talent but long on atmosphere. The smaller affairs can be found around almost any corner, and many offer intriguing programs...