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Amos 'n' Andy started it last September when they left NBC and sold their show to CBS for $2,000,000. The Bureau of Internal Revenue examined this complicated deal and agreed that the $2,000,000 was subject to a capital-gains tax (25%) instead of personal income...
...dangling the juicy bait of tax savings before other NBC stars, soon made off with Jack Benny. Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Phil Harris, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Red Skelton were reported planning to join the exodus to CBS. This week the tax collector cut the gossip short. He had bad news for radio stars who would like to revise contracts...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Ferruccio Tagliavini and Pia Tassinari...
Everything about U.S. television is big -including its losses. Not one TV station is yet in the black. NBC operates its television network at an estimated loss of $13,000 a day. But with all its imponderables (see BUSINESS), U.S. television continues to snowball ahead at the rate of 1,000 new sets installed every 24 hours...
Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...