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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howdy Doody, NBC's popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared...
...month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy's builder and manipulator, huffed out of the studio with Puppet Howdy under his arm. For awhile, the program's fate dangled by a marionette string. But M.C. Bob Smith still owned Howdy's name and voice, and NBC still had Smith. So, while a West Coast puppetmaker hurriedly whittled a new $2,000 marionette, harried Announcer Smith fenced with his young audience and concocted desperate excuses for the puppet's absence: Howdy was invisible, he was on a "presidential campaign tour...
Texaco Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC Television). Milton Berle emceeing a new show, which hopes to "bring back vaudeville." Opening acts include Pearl Bailey, Ventriloquist Senor Wences, Dancers Rosario & Antonio...
Public Affairs (Sat. 12:15 p.m., NBC...
Living - 1948 (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC...