Word: mont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three networks-NBC, ABC and Du Mont-telecast the opening two days in full. CBS, with the most daytime-sponsor bookings at stake, took the stand that televiewers ought to have a choice of entertainment ("Not everybody wants to get in on the McCarthy fight"), and confined itself to Morning Show and late-at-night filmed highlights. After a look at the ratings, NBC this week announced that it would substitute filmed summaries for the real thing. The first two days, reported the network, had cost it more than $125,000 in canceled commercial programs. ABC, with some 50 stations...
Emergency Measure. In Billings, Mont., explaining why he had been arrested five times for drunkenness this year, Paul Rides-the-Horse, 28, a Crow Indian, told the judge that he had merely been following a friend's toothache remedy: "Keep whisky on the tooth at all times...
There was not much doubt about who the finalists would be. Top-seeded was Defending Champion Bob Brady, 30, a muscular (5 ft 11 in., 178 Ibs.) San Francisco cop, who learned his handball at Central High School in Butte, Mont. Seeded No. 2 was stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 173 Ibs.) Brooklyn Fireman Vic Hershkowitz, 35, who won his first tournament at Coney Island in 1938. Since then, Hershkowitz has won 14 national titles, including (in 1952) the one-three-and four-wall singles...
...Questions, in their Detroit living room after dinner. In 1946, Fred Van Deventer moved himself, his wife and the game onto radio. In 1949, 20 Questions went on TV and the Van Deventers added their 15-year-old son to the panel. It has been flourishing on Du Mont for three years...
...nearly 600 rodeos. In his 14-year career, Linderman has also collected some spectacular bruises, e.g., a fractured skull at Pueblo, Colo. (1943), a broken neck and back at Deadwood, S. Dak. (1946), not to mention a broken hand in New York City, and a broken leg at Lewistown, Mont...