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...center of all this to-do is Milton Berle, a jack-of-all-turns vaudeville comic who has gone into television and won a bright new feather for his very old hat. In a space of eight months, Berle's Texaco Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) has made him the undisputed No. 1 performer on U.S. TV. His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven...
Griffiths' profit record at RCA since he took over in 1976 has generally been good. Subsidiaries like Hertz rent-a-car have helped bolster income, but NBCTV, once RCA's proud peacock, has lagged sadly behind the other networks...
...bodies of a farm family in Sutherland, Neb., lay in their blood, dead from gunshot wounds; a ten-year-old girl and her grandmother had been raped after their deaths. As word of the grisly murders spread last October, major news organizations descended -some literally-on the scene. NBCTV, for example, sent a chartered helicopter whirling north from Denver. The journalists started out expecting to get a major crime story; instead, they ended up with a courtroom confrontation between the conflicting rights of a free press and of a defendant to a fair trial...
...University of Southern California (class of '71), Eric Cohen was so bored by some professors that he fell asleep in class. Now he is doing his best to keep the current student body from dozing off too. In fact, Cohen, a gagwriter for Johnny Carson and NBCTV, has been hired by U.S.C. to write jokes for professors to use in their lecture courses...
...Jean Kerr, 40. But she is almost too busy to spend her dough. Wife of the New York Herald Tribune's Drama Critic Walter Kerr, she is expecting her sixth child in October, has just sold her best-selling novel Please Don't Eat the Daisies to NBCTV, is finishing up her next play, Poor Richard, due on Broadway next year...