Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, 54, vice president (1950) of RCA and (since 1953) of NBC, longtime friend and agent to leading show-business stars (TIME, Dec. 17, 1956); of leukemia; in Philadelphia...
...flashed shortly after 10:48 p.m., E.S.T., that the U.S. had launched its first earth satellite, CBS had Murrow himself on camera, chatting with Actor Cyril Ritchard on Person to Person about such weighty questions as "What is the most important thing in the world to you?" Rival NBC, which was luckily televising a discussion of "Missiles and Men" by its own correspondents, broke the big story immediately and ABC cut into a speech by Adlai Stevenson to give its viewers the news in a hurry. But the Murrow show has evidently become so sacrosanct a commercial entertainment that...
...prattled: "The whole show is live except me. I'm on film. And now from my latest album, Songs to Make Money By, here's a swingin' tune, Love Is a Gasser." By coincidence, ABC's Sinatra was appearing against Caesar as a guest on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Caesar drove home his needle by scoring a Trendex rating of 25.8 against Dinah's 14.5. "You can't tell much after one show," he said afterward, but it was plain at least that TV was the richer again for a pair...
Died. Henry ("Pete") Salomon, 40, moving spirit, producer and co-author of NBC's high-rated, 26-week teledocumen-tary, Victory at Sea; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Bongos & Borsch. To light up the hotel's vast lobby, gambling casino, nightclub and swimming pool, plus the 20-story structure from the outside, electricians had to string out the lights the length of almost four football fields and use more kilowatts than the same NBC lighting men once used to illumine Niagara Falls...