Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pentagon-Washington (Sun. 8:30p.m., Du Mont) is a joint effort of the network and the U.S. Department of Defense, devoted mainly to a briefing on the Korean war, with long and necessarily dated reports filed by spokesmen for the Army, Navy & Air Force. The filmed show ends with newsmen asking obviously prepared questions of Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter and getting obviously prepared answers...
...Thorgersen and the News (weekdays 7:35 p.m., Du Mont) brings a veteran newsreel announcer to network TV but can't make him comfortable. Backed by the standard props of a clattering teletype machine, a Korean wall map and the usual succession of still photographs, Thorgersen nervously shuffles through news releases with the distracted air of a man who has not quite finished his homework...
EDUCATION : Johns Hopkins Science Review (Du Mont) because it is "convincing proof that learning need not be dull...
...setmakers were not feeling as cheery as Frank Stanton. Because of the continued slump in sales, layoffs and production cuts were announced last week by Radio Corp. of America, Philco Corp., Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., Emerson Radio & Phonograph Co., and Westinghouse Electric Corp. Admiral Corp. announced that unless sales pick up soon, it will have to borrow money to carry its big inventories...
Like The Barkeep of Blémont (TIME, May 15), Aymé's sardonic jab at the Resistance movement, The Miraculous Barber insists that even in times of historical crisis men display their customary capacity for making fools of themselves...