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Outside Gitlin's domain is one of NBC's greatest assets this year: Robert Saudek's memorable Omnibus, which, after a season off the air and years of scuttling back and forth between networks, resumes on NBC next month. The first show studies the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used their power...
...McCarthy hearings, in which he acted without fee as the Army's special counsel, courtly Joe Welch soon became a public figure, was showered with fan letters. He continued his active practice after that, but also became a TV star in his own right as a narrator on Omnibus and Dow Hour of Great Mysteries. Last year he went to Hollywood, got excellent reviews for playing a small-town judge in the movie version of Anatomy of a Murder. "I took the part," explained Actor Welch, "because it looked like that was the only way I'd ever...
Housing. The Senate has passed a $1.2 billion omnibus bill. A similar House bill is blocked by the Rules Committee. The President wants a "moderate" bill...
Last week, at the urging of Brother Nelson, the state legislature passed an omnibus banking bill that lifted the blockade. Its main provisions: 1) holding companies will be permitted to buy banks anywhere under state supervision; 2) New York commercial and savings banks may open suburban branches, and suburban banks may now invade New York City...
...addition to this creative quartet, there are Alistair Cooke, 51, Manchester Guardian correspondent who has pretty much confined himself to acting as host for Omnibus ("Bob Saudek really wanted Alexander Woollcott, but since he was dead, I was picked"); Production Manager Richard Thomas, 35; Set Designer Henry May, 39; and Treasurer George