Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, insured for $500,000, it appeared last month on television. Omnibus devoted a Sunday afternoon program to the Renaissance, and Gilmore's book was exhibited as a "leading modern source...
...Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). The Antonio Spanish Ballet Company...
Last Sunday, CBS' Omnibus dropped in on Esther Williams, at the Yale pool, he less. They had extra special lights for the TV cameras because the pool hasn't any windows. No Yalies were in the seats. Omnibus couldn't have them hooting and hollering at Esther Williams in a medium-low cut spangled bathing suit...
...Omnibus got off to an interesting start with Author William Saroyan's recollection of his California boyhood and was memorable for the sharply played vignettes of adolescence by Actors Sal Mineo and Pat De Simone. Then Composer Leonard Bernstein took over for a splendidly lucid primer on the world of jazz. Pointing out that blues are based on a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter with the first line repeated, Bernstein developed a lowdown blues song from Shakespeare.* Bernstein looks like a young Burgess Meredith, speaks with extraordinary clarity and intelligence and is always able to demonstrate precisely what...
...minute shows, starting next month with a Judy Garland production, to be followed by three Noel Coward shows, two musical dramas starring Bing Crosby. Ed Murrow's See It Now will include TV "profiles" of New York and Paris and a camera's report on Africa. Omnibus goes musical with Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness, The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce (A Stillness...