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Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...
Fast Count. A new electronic device that can count up to 1,000,000 objects of varying shapes and sizes in just one second has been developed by Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. of Clifton, N.J. The Inconumerator employs a cathode-ray tube to "see," remember what it has counted, then announce the results as lighted figures on a tote board. Among its practical uses: counting blood cells, mass counting of assorted machine parts, tabulating stars in astronomical photos...
...Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...Manhattan, cowboys appeared to have better staying power than spacemen as Du Mont announced that next month it was canceling Captain Video, the oldest (seven years) interplanetary show...
Tenley Albright '57 swept the Women's North American Figure Skating Championship completed yesterday at Regina, Mont. Hugh C. Graham '55 placed fourth in the men's singles...