Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* "For Love or $$$$," Janet Leigh, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Mayehoff, J. Carroll Naish and Pat Harrington Jr. join Bob in a comedy about a hapless tourist in South America up to his neck in foreign intrigue...
...AMERICAN ALCOHOLIC (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A study of the social implications of alcoholism in middle-class America. Actor James Daly narrates, as housewives, clergymen, farmers and professionals in clinics around the country describe the lure of the bottle and the agony of the cure...
...Office Clout. Newman's official title at NBC is "critic at large." Over the network's New York City channel, he reviews opera and theater, and commands a respectable following. One recognition of Newman's box-office clout is that Producer David Merrick, who calls him "the undertaker," tried to bar him from the theater and demanded equal time to answer an embalming review. This was a characteristic Merrick publicity ploy, but then Merrick judged his adversary shrewdly...
...Wisconsin ('40) and did graduate work in government at Louisiana State University. Later he studied in France, covered the State Department for the United Press, then became a writer for CBS's Eric Sevareid. From 1952 to 1961, he worked mainly out of Paris and London for NBC...
...healthily jaundiced." "If someone wants something done on the scenic wonders of the United States," Newman says wryly 'he wouldn't call on me. I am not very good at expressing awe." That goes for television itself. When he isn't first-nightmg or anchoring an NBC show Newman catches up with his reading' I m not entertained," he says, "by television entertainment...