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...local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line about Ireland's Poet George ("A E") Russell and an angry moment when "A E's Irish rose." The next...
...30th anniversary, will push every program except music and news off the air. Participants range from such college presidents as Harvard's Nathan Pusey, Columbia's Grayson Kirk and Colgate's Everett Case to TV's erudite (M.A. Columbia '39) Comedian Sam Levenson, who is billed as a "Teacher and Human Being." Among the more than 100 topics: "The Vanishing Report Card," "I Made the Grade on Broadway, but ..." "The University of Utopia," "Does Education Ever Stop?", "How to Pack a Good Lunch...
This Is Show Business (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS). Clifton Fadiman, George S. Kaufman, Sam Levenson, Gloria Swanson...
...course readings. A combination of scholarship and humility drew praise for head section man Sweeny. He is described as an "ideal" section man, a "teacher in the truest sense," while a critic thought him too tolerant of some of the opinions offered. On the other hand, students thought Levenson unenthusiastic, often boring, and felt that he usually spoke too far above the class' level. '55 objected to the fact that he did too much talking, with little encouragement of participation. Although Stempel was far from inspiring, most students appreciated the vast amount of scholarship he brought to bear...
...course readings. A combination of scholarship and humility drew praise for head section man Sweeny. He is described as an "ideal" section man, a "teacher in the truest sense," while a critic thought him too tolerant of some of the opinions offered. On the other hand, students thought Levenson unenthusiastic, often boring, and felt that he usually spoke too far above the class' level. '55 objected to the fact that he did too much talking, with little encouragement of participation. Although Stempel was far from inspiring, most students appreciated the vast amount of scholarship he brought to bear...