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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the old row broke out anew. With the annual elections still more than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores, that the 17 clubs now took in 87% of those who wished to belong, but it should...
This week, Goodman Ace and wife Jane brought a new version of their old Easy Aces to television (Wed. 7:45 p.m., Du Mont), complete with puns, malapropisms and humor aimed at grownups. "It's sort of a homey little thing," explained Ace. "We don't expect it to revolutionize the business...
...four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other's conditions were unacceptable. Last week they finally came to terms in a hands-down victory for the National League...
Bashed Heads. In a broadside of letters to the stations, with copies to local newspapers and the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, 49-year-old Mrs. Logan temperately asked for the substitution of "acceptable programs which would be suitable for family viewing and listening . . ." FCCommissioner Wayne Coy thanked Mrs. Logan for her report and called it a "good job." The Los Angeles stations had no comment, except for KNBH, which replied that her action would only call attention to the very things she disliked and thereby create further interest in them...
...misinterpretations of the obvious and his exasperated efforts to set her straight. In a typical gag, Ace says, wonderingly: "Imagine the Indians selling Manhattan for $24! And where are the Indians today!" Jane: "Playing baseball for Cleveland." Future shows will have only such subsidiary characters as an eight-year-old all-white West Highland terrier named Blackie and Ace's complaining, cliché-ridden mother-in-law (played by Betty Garde...