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...began when Los Angeles station KCOP-TV (Channel 13) brought in a beauty queen to do the Philco commercials in place of Oscar's ailing wife June. Oscar had expected to do the commercials himself, and this "humiliation" shook him from id to toe. He was rude, hustled her off-camera before she could make her sales pitch, was notified within minutes that Philco had canceled sponsorship of the show. In a rage, Oscar launched into an on-the-air assault on Philco, urged his audience not to buy Philco until the company returned to his program...
...dealers. At least 95% of all color sets now being sold are RCAs. For a while, Motorola, General Electric, Admiral and Westinghouse were turning out color sets with RCA tubes, but all have virtually discontinued commercial production. Says Westinghouse: "Color is apparently not enough of a novelty to sell." Philco, DuMont and General Electric are at work trying to develop a simplified "one-gun" tube that would be cheaper and produce a better picture than RCA's "three-gun" shadow-mask tube, but admit that success is not yet in sight...
Their demise capped a long decline for TV's live weekly dramas, a once flourishing genre. Philco-Goodyear TV Playhouse and Robert Montgomery Presents have long since preceded them into the long, unsponsored night. Like the others, Kraft and Studio One have both been in a long slide downward; both have been subjected to recent, last-gasp transfusions; neither revived. Studio One will be replaced by Desilu Playhouse, a series of 48 hour-long films produced in Hollywood by Desi Arnaz. Westinghouse paid $11 million for the package, claimed to be the largest single deal in TV history. Kraft...
...tumbled to 70? a share v. $1.18 a year ago. International Paper Co. sales slipped 10% for the quarter, and earnings will show a sharper drop. In appliances. Whirlpool's per-share earnings were almost halved to 25? a share. Admiral Corp.'s earnings also dipped, and Philco "will undoubtedly show a loss" for the first quarter...
DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND, new U.S. program to lend $300 million in fiscal 1958 to spur private enterprise abroad (TIME, Sept. 30), will be bossed by Dempster Mclntosh, 61, now U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. A Republican and foreign-trade expert, he was president of Philco International Corp. from...