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With apologies and acknowledgments to he composer of MacNamara's Band, this seems to show how things are going in God's Own Country...
...close enough to Hollywood for maximum publicity purposes, and 2) it has its own transmission system to Los Angeles and, therefore, does not come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, which has yet to make up its mind about subscription TV. Telemeter's Pressagent Paul MacNamara insisted that "Palm Springs is not a test. We are beginning operations. We have opened our store. The results will be interesting to everyone concerned -motion pictures, football and baseball, business and the FCC-all of the people who, in the future, will be using this new method of distribution...
...MacNamara claims that every big studio is behind Telemeter except 20th Century-Fox ("We can't project their big-screen CinemaScope pictures on TV"). He looks forward to a minimum audience of 5,000,000 for TV film premieres. But, at the moment, moviemen are more intent on Palm Springs' 70 Telemeter set owners. Some of their comments: Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler-"It's fine if we get paid. If movies are going to wind up on TV screens, I don't want to have a picture interrupted to talk about soap." Director Mervyn...
Sullivan had 3,554 votes. He was closely followed by Mayor Joseph A. DiGuglielmo '29. Next were Edward A. Crano '35, Thomas N. MacNamara, Charles A. Watson, Hyman Pill, Marcus Morton, John J. Foley and W. Donnison Swan...
...into the halls, almost into the elevators. There was a cake 15 ft. high which Bishop Sheil had to cut standing above it on the balcony. There was a main course of the bishop's beloved corned beef & cabbage, and over & over the band played his favorite tune, MacNamara's Band...