Word: mont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio critic Jack Gould was appalled by Flash Gordon, an interstellar TV serial based on a comic strip. He damned it as "a macabre and sordid half-hour" which had no other purpose than "a stimulation of horror, fright and ghoulish suspense." Appealing to executives of the Du Mont network as "men of sensibility and judgment," Gould asked that something be done about the show (Sat. 6:30 p.m. E.S.T.), which "so easily can have an unhappy aftermath in the impressionable minds of youngsters...
...Mont nervously replaced Flash* with a western movie, was promptly deluged by hundreds of phone calls from viewers who wanted to know what had happened to their hero. When last seen, Flash was being nibbled by a claw-armed space monster shaped like a sea horse. But by week's end, Crusader Gould had won a clear decision over the clamorous fans: Du Mont announced that another adventure serial, Don Winslow, would appear in the time slot previously held by Flash Gordon...
...Word. In Telephone, Texas, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. announced that it would soon get around to installing the town's first telephone serv-ce. In Great Falls, Mont., Mrs. Frank H. Human won a divorce after testifying that her husband treated her in an "inhuman manner...
JAMES C. TRIMBLE Malta, Mont...
...trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western is always supposed to be an agent of Captain Video...