Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laurel-hung veterans closed a chapter. In Hollywood, after only a year of a three-year NBC contract, Producer-Director Fred Coe announced that he was quitting the network. Said Coe, who developed such playwrights as Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote, and put on Television Playhouse, Producer's Showcase and Mr. Peepers: "Plans and ideas that I have submitted have either been ignored or have drawn no interest. On the other hand, I have been given no assignment. A silent telephone on your desk is a terrible thing." In Manhattan, after seven successful years in daily morning...
...glittering delegation from the baseball and entertainment worlds affectionately paid homage on NBC-TV to the matriarch of the U.S. theater, Actress Ethel Barrymore, 78. The tasteful mish-maash of misty-eyed reminiscence deeply affected Actress Barrymore. She got a warm message from Sir Winston Churchill, orated by Cinemactor David Niven. Day before the show, inveterate Baseball Fan Barrymore, taking it easy in a wheelchair during tiring rehearsals, batted the breeze with Daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt and some diamond luminaries who later took part in the TV salute-Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, NBC Sport Consultant...
Mayer has been appearing on NBC's "Twenty-One," in competition with other contestants answering questions in a wide range of categories. Tonight he will attempt to answer ten and eleven point questions, worth $2500 for each point, or $45,000 in all. Last week Mayer tied his opponent in the questioning...
...first time in broadcasting history, all three networks pooled their talent on NBC's Wide Wide World last week to help TV celebrate its first decade. The result was a kind of family photograph album-a little faded, and brown with nostalgia. There was more fun than focus as The Fabulous Infant paraded 90 minutes of TV's past. The laconic Frank Costello grumbled again to the Kefauver committee: "Under no condition will I testify until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father...
...Feodorovich Stravinsky from the piano in his soundproof Hollywood studio. "Come here. Sit down. I want to show you something." Squinching like a mole into neat, penetrating closeups, Composer Stravinsky then proceeded to show a young protege, Conductor Robert Craft, as well as several million Sunday afternoon viewers on NBC, how musical ideas occur. "You have to touch the music," said Stravinsky, innocent eyes bugging and jowls aquiver, "not only to hear it-because touching it, we feel the vibration of the music...