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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hucksters, Sunday afternoon is known as an "intellectual ghetto" where the networks stow their small sops to the minority. Thus when two unsponsored NBC shows landed quietly in the ghetto this week, it was not surprising that both turned out to be far more impressive than the season's new commercial fare (see below). Wisdom, a filmed series of interviews with "the world's foremost seminal doers and thinkers," and Look Here!, a live, remote interview show with public figures, proved again that the most effective TV comes straight from life...
...artist sketched a town scene, fashioned a big-beaked bird from a freshly molded clay vase and made a figure on the floor from a clay pipe, broken bits of pottery and an olive branch. But he never uttered a sound. "I do not talk," Picasso had told NBC. "I only paint." In a fascinating finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered up a ladder and with no preliminary sketches drew dancing goddesses across the wall of a chapel with an ease and grace that made genius look simple. The stunning close-ups of his works (pink...
Look Here! brings NBC's bowstringtaut Martin Agronsky, 42, into what he calls "the tremendously rich area between Mike Wallace and Ed Murrow." In the paneled, high-ceilinged office of John Foster Dulles, Agronsky tested his new concept-"penetrating the wellsprings of character"-to good effect. By exploring areas that the news panel shows had never found cause to enter, Agronsky made a refreshing switch on the usual Dulles interview. (Sample questions: What does a man feel when he faces a decision that might mean the difference between peace and war? How do you reconcile the doctrine of massive...
...editor of Home, NBC's do-it-yourself TV "magazine," Arlene has coxswained a varsity crew, gone down in a diving bell and up on a "cat cracker" (oil refiner), and ridden a camel at the Bronx Zoo. She also showed Homemakers how to make cream puffs and raise chimpanzees. She was the first woman ever to open the New York Stock Exchange ("I blew the whistle and all these men came charging out of their offices and started making money"). When the gadget-ridden Home that Pat Weaver built closed up last month after 3½-years...
...bought my TV set on your account, and now I'm stuck with the damn thing." More than one mother complained that she would miss cleaning the smudges her children made on the TV screen when they kissed the Kuklapolitans good night. To the chief programmer of NBC (and former ABC president) came a letter from Adlai Stevenson: "Surely such assassination, murther and mayhem cannot be permitted in this enlightened land...