Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Mocking Greed. Slowly, they built up a reputation on the nightclub circuit. Then, four months ago Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek gave them a 15-minute TV go with spectacular results. Currently, they are at Chicago's Mister Kelly's at $2,500 a week...
...Best public-service series: Omnibus...
...Tragic Beauty." A slight, unprepossessing man with a boyish face and frizzly red hair, Costigan is an actor of considerable force. He has played on such shows as Studio One and Omnibus. His "dismal" years as a Broadway stage hopeful helped turn Costigan into a TV playwright. In 1953 he ground out four original TV plays and six adaptations, then took off for a year in France and Ireland. Three times since then he has "gone home" to the country of his ancestors to absorb "the tragic beauty of the land, dark and sweet and green...
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER hankers to make Hollywood's first move into live TV. Negotiations with TV's Robert (Omnibus) Saudek are getting warm, and plan is for joint production of six 60-to-90-minute spectaculars costing $350,000 each during 1958-59 season...