Word: nbc
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While CBS Board Chairman William Paley was proving once again that this is a year for underdogs, NBC was crying "Foul!" Though trade papers had banner-lined that he had made similar-but smaller-offers to keep Benny, President Niles Trammell announced primly that NBC would "continue to refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...
Empty Bowl. Whatever the final outcome, NBC's Sunday evening position looked bleak, except for Fred Allen. At one time, NBC strategists had thought of filling in with a series of crime-mystery plays. But that bet was automatically ruled out by NBC's own ban on mystery shows before 9:30 p.m. (presumably the hour when all little pitchers are in bed). Crumped one disgruntled executive: "We've made our policy. Now we have to sleep with...
...NBC also made the belated discovery that fast-moving CBS had routed them on another front. The Rose Bowl game will be aired this year by CBS. Other networks had grabbed up the remaining big bowl games. At week's end, NBC Sports Director Bill Stern was hastily dickering for the rights to broadcast the last remaining games of any consequence (Jacksonville's 'Gator Bowl and San Diego's Harbor Bowl). For the first time in 21 years, it looked as if a badly battle-scarred NBC might have no bowl broadcast...
...NBC Symphony (Sat. 6 rsop.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting a Mozart, Dvorak and Wagner program...
University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers...