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...really a homebody, and the main support of two adult humans, Mennella, 34, and Roy Waldron, 33, onetime NBC pages who bought him for $600 when they decided to open a pet shop. Last week they lovingly nursed him back to health around the clock, feeding him pills every four hours, shared the hours with him as he sat in the living room by a roaring fire watching TV. When necessary, they have even slept in the same bed with him ("The only trouble is that he grabs all the blankets"). Says Mennella: "There will never be another one like...
President Eisenhower took his inaugural oath last week twice within half an hour-or so it looked to millions of viewers on CBS and NBC. The trick was done not by mirrors but their electronic equivalent: the new Videotape Recorder, a 900-lb. machine that captures images as well as sound on magnetic tape and can play them back instantly-or when ever the user wants them-with fidelity approaching the original picture. It was the first time that TV had used Videotape in covering the news, but its experimental use in the few weeks since the networks...
First to order the machines, CBS pioneered last month in taping its Douglas Edwards news program for replay on the West Coast. Last week, after the inaugural, NBC began taping Today, Home and Tonight for the West. Both networks have also begun using tape to record complete shows in advance-NBC with Truth or Consequences, and CBS with one or two hours of the Arthur Godfrey Show so that fans will not languish entirely without the real Arthur while he goes on a five-week vacation to Africa. Among its advantages, the tape does away with waiting for "rushes...
Ruggles of Red Gap (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). A musical version of the classic, with Michael Redgrave, David Wayne...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). No License to Kill, with Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart and blinded Columnist Victor Riesel as narrator...