Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where's that Wide Wide World?" cried members of the Detroit contingent. "Where's Dave Garroway? He told us he was going to be here." Television's Garroway did not show, but NBC's Martin Agronsky was there, stage managing United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther on to the footprints marked for him in chalk pn the platform, marshaling a crowd behind Reuther, while a producer with a megaphone exhorted everyone to wave the freshly printed PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK signs for the camera...
...dress rehearsal was scarcely finished last week when Songwriter Sammy Cahn shouted to Producer Jerry Wald that the award-giving ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not going to fill its allotted time. "You know more than NBC?" growled Wald. "Yes," shot back Cahn. But no one was listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left...
...Oldsmobile Theater (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A bedtime story about a onetime child star trying out various marriages, with Hurd Hatfield, Carol Lawrence. In two parts, with installment No. 2 coming up next week...
Laugh Line (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). TV may not be the best of all possible worlds for those far-out explorers, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, but they are canny enough to survive in almost any climate; the show is based on their ad-libbed comments about contrived, oddball tableaux...
...Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Perry entertains robusty Whisperer Julie London...