Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zany who enjoys pricking the conscience of all associated with TV or radio, Comic Henry Morgan began stabbing (on NBC's Monitor) at those innocent bystanders known as critics. Said Morgan: "A Broadway critic who reviews a TV play that was expanded for the stage always says, 'This offering was too slight to be expanded.' A TV critic discussing a Broadway play adapted to television always says, 'This offering was too big to be cut down...
...having "chosen" to appear in a filmed edition of the show, Gaitskell broke in to ask that he change that to "accepted" the invitation. This phrasing would square him with a future host, CBS's Face the Nation, explained Gaitskell, who added discreetly that he already had promised NBC's Meet the Press first crack at him whenever he becomes Britain's Prime Minister. Last week former Supreme Allied Commander Alfred Gruenther, long impregnable to a bombardment of invitations by the three programs, maneuvered a skillful surrender. At his request and in full view of Washington newsmen...
...Video Theater's Hollywood Holiday Musical Revue (Dec. 20, 10 p.m., NBC) will reclaim hit tunes from top movies over the past 25 years, with Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae and Phil Harris, all in color...
Perry Como, in two holiday colorcasts (Dec. 22 and 29, 8 p.m., NBC), will engage, among others, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Brewer. Red Buttons, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
Biographies in Sound (Tues. 8:35 p.m., NBC). Robert Benchley...