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...their own firm three years ago when Ford pulled out, ran the show successfully for NBC. This season, NBC decided that the spate of specials would make the program obsolete. Rarely has a network been so wrong. Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season...
...Potent Group. A Harvard Phi Beta Kappa ('32) and onetime ABC vice president for public affairs, sad-faced Bob Saudek was running the Ford Foundation's TV-Radio Workshop when he developed the idea for Omnibus. Getting the program under way with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike...
...Walter Kerr, 46, onetime drama professor at Catholic University and since 1951 theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune, who reads all scripts, adapted Oedipus Rex for Omnibus, is now adapting Richard Marsh's The Datchett Diamonds for the new classical mystery series, which he thought up. Kerr would like to do the historical plays of Shakespeare, in order, on consecutive nights, from King John to Henry VIII, is meanwhile having a rough time finding a Sherlock Holmes story for the mystery series because A. Conan Doyle's plots were so "simple-minded...
...omnibus housing and urban renewal package that the President will probably find as little to his liking as the two Democratic housing measures he vetoed during the last session...
...week in Bal Harbour, Fla., outgoing President William D. Kerr posed a challenge: "I visualize a titanic struggle between the forces that would foster and perpetuate our local governments and our right to the well-known freedoms and those who would turn these United States into a huge federal omnibus in which the individual would be reduced to being a number in a file...