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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What little influence the TV critics do have is generally exerted within the television industry itself. A handful of top critics-Gould, Crosby, Humphrey, O'Flaherty and Variety's George Rosen-are regularly read by network executives, program sponsors and advertising agencies. Such critics can point to a few direct results of their influence. During the 1956 Suez crisis, several blistering columns by the Times's Gould shamed all three networks into covering the U.N. Security Council debate on the Mideast. After John Crosby rapped CBS for vapid programing, CBS Board Chairman William Paley postponed a European...
...such successes are the exception rather than the rule, and most of the critics admit it. The Times's Jack Gould even declines to take credit for getting the Security Council sessions onto the networks. Says he: "I only confirmed a general attitude." Says a network vice president in Chicago: "A lot of network brass would say, 'Oh, yes, we take the critics' opinion seriously,' but they get nothing but a chuckle behind closed doors...
...best one-word description of Henry J. Kaiser, 77, and his son Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, 51, is the title of the TV program sponsored by their $1.8 billion industrial empire: Maverick. Before he moved upstairs to let his son take over, bulldozing Henry J. built a worldwide network of diversified companies with an independence and daring that alternately drew gasps, laughter, and profanity from U.S. industry. Last week Son Edgar once more proved that the Kaisers are mavericks: he settled with the striking United Steelworkers on behalf of his Kaiser Steel Corp., thus breaking the industry's solid ranks...
...shape for long hours on the job. He spends a quarter of his time hopping from country to country, divides the rest between offices in Oakland and Manhattan. His 12-ft. blond-wood desk in Oakland is equipped with 20 intercoms and 17 phone lines that can reach his network of 91 plants and facilities in seconds. Henry J. still keeps in touch from Hawaii, often calls up sleeping Edgar at 4:30 a.m. and chortles: "Oh, did I wake...
Opera (NBC, 4-6 p.m.). The network's opera company presents a new English version of Beethoven's Fidelia. Starring Irene Jordan, John Alexander and Lee Cass. Color...