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...terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters in a flank-speed turn as Cinemermaid Esther Williams, sheathed in tight red slacks and sweater, pranced aboard the Navy submarine U.S.S. Trout in New London, Conn. Purpose: to play hostess on NBC-TV's Omnibus documentary on submarine training. It was Producer Robert Saudek's idea, based on the theory that "many aspects of submarine navigation are similar to swimming." Esther, whose medium is cold water, poured plenty of it on officers' wives jammed in the New London officers' club to meet...
...Omnibus (NBC. 5-6 p.m.). The thesis is that the human body behaves under water like an atomic submarine, or vice versa, and Esther Williams is on hand to demonstrate...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The program that symbolizes TV's search for dignity opens its sixth season with Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch probing capital punishment; Alistair Cooke still provides the accompaniment...
...that improbable note, the once-sedate New York Philharmonic last week launched its nyth season. In effect, Lennie was trying to bring the program notes to life, using the technique that he made familiar on his Omnibus music-appreciation series. His explanation: "How many times have you sat there and had a new piece of music thrown at you by Theocritus Schwartz or John Foster Doe and longed for something that would bring the piece closer...
...election-year splash of generosity, the Senate last week passed a $2.5 billion omnibus housing bill, about $1 billion bigger than the President requested. Piled atop the antirecession housing program enacted earlier this year, the new measure (which the House will probably trim a bit) brought the Senate's total 1958 housing appropriation to a dizzying $4.3 billion...