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Inured to stranger ones, Art Baker and his staff of 8 scarcely gave it a second thought. In their six months of operating You Asked for It (broadcast from Los Angeles' KTTV, fed to the nation a week later by Du Mont from New York), they have already shown, in response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain...
...regular channel, RCA also showed TV set owners that its system is compatible, i.e., it could receive the broadcasts in black & white. (RCA can also convert existing sets to color.) The new tube's performance was so impressive that such TV competitors as Allen B. Du Mont, who has opposed any form of color up till now, changed their minds. Said Du Mont: "The RCA picture was good enough to start commercial programs immediately...
...again, London. Along the way she was able to find time for visits at TIME'S European bureaus, where she picked up her mail from home, parked extra luggage and got knowing advice about where & how to travel. Her experiences ranged all the way from a climb up Mont Chevalier to a glimpse of the royal family in London. "It was," she says, "worth every cent...
...career as a soldier was no more unusual than his reason for becoming one (West Point was free and he was poor). While some of his classmates ('15) helped to make military history in World War I, Bradley commanded a guard company in the copper mines at Butte, Mont. He began to think that his "career had been washed out from the start." But at Fort Benning in 1929, he had worked for a lieutenant colonel named George Marshall...
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...