Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than a gigantic promotion stunt disguised as a spectacular, with self-conscious emphasis on quantity over quality; this year the awards committees pared the categories down from last year's 41 to 29. Still there was a striking imbalance. Caesar's Hour, which may be dropped by NBC at season's end, won five of the awards. Free-lancing Nanette Fabray was again named Best Comedienne for her work on the Caesar show, even though she had not appeared on it for nine months. Other principal winners...
...ended last week the four-month mental marathon that had accomplished the transformation of an egghead into a TV darling (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.). By failing to name Belgium's King Baudouin, Van Doren lost the game on NBC's Twenty One to Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, a blonde barrister who had tied him for two weeks running. The loss shaved Van Doren's take from $143,000 to $129,000, still the largest prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English...
...stay at Columbia. But he has been deluged with outside offers from radio, TV and Hollywood, now needs an agent to handle the requests. Van Doren claims to have made no commitments about his future in show business other than to sign up for the first program of NBC Radio's revival of Conversation on March 21, which will be moderated by his good friend Critic Clifton Fadiman. What does Van Doren plan to charge for an appearance? "There's a medieval custom," he grins, "that an author never mentions money...
...Maestro's last word on Aïda ranks with his recording of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff as his operatic testament. The NBC Symphony plays with brilliant coloring and syllable-sharp instrumental detail ; the singers-some less than top drawer-are whipped almost beyond their powers to high moments of musical exaltation. The Met's Tucker, singing the full dramatic tenor role of Radames for the first time, has big, ringing power when he needs it, joined to a fervent, melting lyricism. Titian-haired Herva Nelli, Toscanini's favorite soprano, sings perhaps the finest...
...Romeo and Juliet music of Berlioz and the Second and Fourth symphonies of Sibelius. The recordings are the fruits of a plan RCA Victor worked out with Walter Toscanini in 1954 to get the Maestro to approve or disapprove every scrap of his music recorded since 1937, when the NBC Symphony was formed...