Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrender: their grievances, over such matters as bad food, harsh treatment, must get publicity and an investigation by Governor George D. Clyde. The convicts snatched at Larson's idea of putting their spokesmen on a national TV network as the best means of airing their complaints. KTVT, an NBC affiliate, arranged for the network to carry such interviews as soon as Today reached the air at 7 a.m., E.S.T. Ironically, a snarl kept the interviews off the network, but the prisoners, not knowing this, began to give...
Just as the leaders were turning in their guns, the sound failure was fixed and KTVT hit the NBC network with an extraordinary 18 minutes in which Commentator Tom Wayman's skillful questioning drew the story out of three convicts and the governor. Mumbling like Marlon Brando understudies, the convicts described their "diffewculties." Asked if he had a weapon, one protested without a break in gum-chewing rhythm: "I didn't have no weapon. I just had a knife and one of them .22-caliber things." Why was one inmate beaten up? "He was not too popular...
Matinee Theater (Thurs. 3 p.m., NBC). Ibsen's The Master Builder, with Oscar Homolka (color...
Kaiser Aluminum Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). In So Short a Season Albert Salmi plays a town clown who turns out to be the fastest gun around...
Biographies in Sound (Mon. 8:05 p.m., NBC). Thomas A. Edison...