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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benevolent Tyrant. By 1932, when DeMille began to make talkies, he had already produced a series of Biblical epics (King of Kings, The Ten Commandments). He strolled his sets, a demanding and benevolent tyrant, a chair boy always behind him with a chair so that the master could sit down without looking, a mike boy always beside him so that the master could issue orders. A secretary trailed him, pencil at the ready. At home, a handy pad awaited his jotted-down inspirations in every room -even the bathroom...
This use of TV to reach the public and make news is spreading to other cities. New York City Controller Lawrence Gerosa last fall used a Sunday interview on WRCA's Searchlight to score the city's school-building program as being "too fast and too fancy," stirred an open row in the papers. As reporters clamored for rebuttal to Gerosa's charges, school board officials bided their time until they in turn could state their case...
...move more advantageous to the invading forces could scarcely have been planned by the Allied high command-as in fact it was. The truth is, General Montgomery did not make an inspection tour of North Africa in 1944; he was much too busy in England. The trip was actually made by Lieut. M.E. Clifton James of the Royal Army Pay Corps, a small-time character actor who bore such a staggering resemblance to Monty and mimicked him so well that not a man in North Africa twigged the substitution-not even Monty's onetime batman...
...that, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia replied tartly that it was hard to believe that "the entire national security of the U.S. would be imperiled if two turbines were built by her ally, Britain." He implied that a $1,757,210 contract could not make or break a vital industry, especially since there are five U.S. manufacturers of hydraulic turbines. Moreover, U.S. manufacturers have won 21 of the 23 important Government hydraulic-turbine jobs since 1952. Still unsatisfied, they are lobbying hard to bar foreign manufacturers from bidding...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* If the makeup man can make Siobhan McKenna look dowdy, nothing at this late date should get in the way of J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, a well-thumbed treatise on giving a career-climbing hubby a homely leg-up; with James Donald, Martita Hunt...