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Author Meets the Critics (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., Du Mont). Target: Senator Joe McCarthy and his book, America's Retreat from Victory...
Looking pretty but disheveled, Peacemaker Emerson was trying desperately to bring order to last week's Author Meets the Critics (Thurs. 10 p.m., Du Mont). Her out-of-hand panel consisted of Presidential Candidate Senator Robert A. Taft; his strong supporter, Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky; and Tex ("I Like Ike") McCrary, who is perhaps best known for his weekday husband & wife show with Jinx Falkenburg. They were met to discuss Taft's recent book, A Foreign Policy for Americans. The trouble started when McCrary charged that Taft "has been careless with the truth in this book...
Insult. In Butte, Mont., Dennis Lambert sued Tavern Owner W. B. Booth for $16,500, charged that Booth flew into a violent rage and beat him up after Lambert ordered a hamburger and removed the onions...
...Mont Television put the question to Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen two months ago. How would the bishop like to have a television program? Bishop Sheen said he would like it fine. Details were ironed out (e.g., the bishop preferred to broadcast from a church, but Du Mont convinced him that a studio-set library would be better) and last week the new series, Life Is Worth Living (Tuesdays 8 p.m., E.S.T.), was aired over Manhattan, Chicago and Washington stations. Half an hour later, at program's end, Du Mont was swamped with 250 congratulatory calls...
This week, as the mail continued to pile in, Du Mont and Bishop Sheen were planning to continue the series indefinitely, as one of Du Mont's "public service" shows...