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World News (weekdays, 7 p.m., ABCTV) has one considerable asset in Newsman John Daly. The newsreel clips and illustrated charts are better-timed and briefer than on most TV news shows, and the commercials, for Sponsor Pontiac, make only one interruption in the middle of the newscast...
...another moderator's post in July with a CBS summer replacement quiz show called It's News to Me. Last week the sponsor, Sanka Coffee, announced that the show and Daly are set for a TV run through the winter. By virtue of a weekly ABC radio newscast, Daly still classifies himself as a newsman: he hopes to get going in October with a TV news show that will have not a single contestant or panel member...
...Success. Knowing that he could not compete on prices with the East's huge assembly lines, he plugged quality and superior design (he experimented with 5,000 cabinet designs). He plastered the Coast with billboards ("Hoffman-A Brilliant New Name in Radio") and sponsored a first-rate newscast with Historian J. Wallace Sterling (now Stanford's president) as narrator. This fall he began televising the Pacific Coast Conference football games because he thinks football and wrestling are the two biggest attractions on television...
...newscast over Houston station KPRC in 1936, Commentator Frank Colby mentioned the Dionne "KWIN-tyoo-plits." Listeners barraged him with protests; they said that the correct pronunciation was kwin-TUH-plits or kwinTOO-plits. After Colby had cited Webster to prove that his pronunciation was preferred, he decided to start a column in the Houston Chronicle about words, their pronunciation and derivation. It was such a success that Colby settled down full-time to writing a daily column, "Take My Word for It," now syndicated in 600 newspapers...
Only eight months ago, Perón's censors had snipped another Neville story into senselessness. Recently, the censorship had also been extended to other U.S. newsmen. Since March, radio correspondents have been denied access to broadcasting facilities, and last fortnight the Buenos Aires newscast of the U.S. Information Service was banned for two days. At week's end, U.S. Ambassador James Bruce lodged a protest with Argentina's Foreign Office...