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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 7 Black Saddle (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A meaningless title conceals a western about a lawyer (Peter Breck) almost as fast with his mouth as he is with his gun. It is all good, unwholesome...
...Manie Sacks, a man scarcely known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...Sacks charged into radio and public relations. As A. & R. man (artists and repertory) beginning in 1940, he coralled Sinatra, Shore, Benny Goodman and Harry James for the Columbia label. When he left for RCA ten years later, most of his stable followed him loyally. Later, his duties as NBC vice president in charge of TV programing and talent still consisted largely of coddling performers, listening to their troubles and shrewdly guiding their careers...
...March 4 Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The engaging musical variety show bubbles on, this time with Soprano Eileen Farrell, Violinist Isaac Stern, the Joe Bushkin Quartet, Ann Blyth and Howard Keel...
Cavalcade of Sports (NBC...