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First Person (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) often uses the camera as one of its actors, and leans toward old-fashioned horror stories. Last week's show was a supernatural melodrama about a numbed victim and a reluctant murderer, but toward the end, the eerie quality dissolved into unexplained silliness. Sponsor: Gulf...
Nothing But the Best (Tues. 9 p.m., NBCTV) stars Cinemactor Eddie Albert and tries to recapture the easygoing mood of the old Garroway at Large show. But the pace is slow rather than relaxed, and Eddie Albert's folksy chatter merely gets in the way of such guest performers as Torch Singer Lee Wiley, Trumpeter Louis...
Eddy Arnold Show (Tues. & Thurs., 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) tries gamely to flesh out its hillbilly tunes with production numbers in the Hit Parade manner. Billed as "the Tennessee Plowboy," unsponsored Eddy Arnold strums a guitar, beats out songs like Moonlight & Roses in country rhythm, and gets informal support from an earnest, shiny-faced trio called the Dickens Sisters...
...which has long led NBC in radio billings, has taken the lead in TV. With $8,750,000 new business in a month (from Prudential Insurance, Chrysler, G.E., etc.), CBS-TV is now 28% ahead of NBCTV...
Meet the Veep (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBCTV) helps reduce the ranks of unemployed Democrats by paying ex-Vice President Alben Barkley a reported $2,500 a week for 15 minutes of his time. With the assistance of 72-year-old Newsman Earl Godwin, 75-year-old Barkley fills his show with political anecdotes, sidelights on such personages as Franklin Roosevelt ("He went back to the horse & buggy days in his shaving-he used a straight-edged razor"), and cheery comment on world affairs ("I think Korea is tragic but not insoluble"). For his first show, Barkley won high praise...