Word: matte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspicion: NBC's new series of hour-long melodramas, half on film and half live, usually seems deader than either, but it sat up and began to move last week with The Deadly Game, adapted by James Yaffe from a story by Friedrich Duerren-matt. A sales executive (Gary Merrill) stumbled out of a New England blizzard to find shelter in an old-fashioned mansion where four retired men in dinner jackets almost seemed to be waiting for him. They plied him with food and brandy, and he amiably agreed after dinner to join them in the parlor game...
Also puzzled were Philadelphia newsmen. Why did Walter Annenberg, whose staunchly Republican morning Inquirer has often feuded with McCloskey in the past, want the Democratic morning News (long known to Philadelphians as "The Dirty News")? Why had the Democratic Party's longtime National Treasurer Matt McCloskey capitulated? Though neither the civic-minded Inquirer (circ. 609,350) nor Robert McLean's quietly thorough afternoon Bulletin (circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years...
...show lacked the hippodrome theatrics of other-day TV hearings, it was a smoothly professional job, with Labor Reporter Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register) and Du Mont's Matt Warren providing knowledgeable commentary. The show was marred only once: as Senator Kennedy illustrated shakedown techniques by playing tapped phone conversations involving extortion, Mollenhoff intruded with extraneous commentary...
...morning and one at night); there was a giant picnic for 2,000 church members at noon, and at 3 p.m. there was a going-away party with an air-conditioned Buick as the main gift. Object of all the attention: Broadway Church's personable pastor-Matt Norvel Young, 41, an expansive man in an expanding church...
Then, either senior Dick Fisher or junior Ken Hathaway in left, junior Walt Stahura in center, senior Matt Botsford in right, senior Phil Haughey catching, and Repetto on the mound...