Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract to do three filmed series for ABC next season, including another round of Disneyland. For nine weeks millions of viewers suffered through their TV screens with young (30), curl-cropped Charles Lincoln Van Doren as he stood inside one of the soundproof pressure cookers of NBC's game of chance, Twenty-One, and answered a staggering variety of questions ranging from Lincoln to Latin America, from chemistry to comic strips. Last week...
Manhattan's Radio City buzzed last week with news of a major defection: J. Fred Muggs, 4½, the world's most successful chimpanzee, would quit NBC's Today on March 1 after spending all but ten months of his life as Dave Garroway's ape-in-the-hole. First reports said that Muggs was retiring because of laggard health and old age. "Nonsense," said an NBC spokesman. "He's leaving Garroway for the same reason Nanette Fabray left Sid Caesar. He thinks he can make more money...
Muggs was recovering from a virus infection at his rambling ten-room house in Ramsey, N.J., and his lawyer, Jack Katz, kept mum. But Bud Mennella of the J. Fred Muggs Enterprises confirmed that the chimp's little eyes were fastened on an active future. "The NBC contract is re warding," he said, "but also constricting." Muggs has had so many offers, he added, that he hardly knows where to start raking in the big money. At NBC, where he started at $250 a week, Muggs now makes only $1,275 a week, pads it out with "sizable" income...
Toscanini left the mark of his honesty and passion on the conscience of his musical generation, particularly on every artist who ever worked with him-at La Scala, the Metropolitan (1908-15), in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (1928-36), at Salzburg, at Bayreuth and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-54). Few could define exactly how the little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct...
...visitor found him jumping up and down on his dressing-room couch, trying to reach the ceiling and shouting: "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year-old?" When he was a pink-cheeked 83, he led the NBC Symphony in a grueling whirlwind tour of 20 U.S. cities in six weeks. At 85, he conducted perhaps the finest performance (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) of his career. When he finally withdrew to his Riverdale home, he still spent long hours in the living room listening to virtually every scrap...