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Time traveling with Pat--back to the '50s, to the culture war of the cold war, with that sissy Adlai Stevenson orating in flickering grays on the Philco. Gonzaga did not make Buchanan a demagogue, but something in the school's inherent anger long ago and its bullying, underdog-wants-to-be-overdog righteousness went into Pat's brain, and came out nasty and dangerous...
...Frasier and Seinfeld more than stand up to I Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore and Cheers; that dramas like NYPD Blue and ER are broadening the scope of narrative art; that, heretical as it may sound, the 1990s are television's real Golden Age, the 1950s and Philco TV Playhouse and Paddy Chayefsky and Winky Dink and You notwithstanding...
...production of The Mother, originally seen on the Philco Television Playhouse in 1954, is something of a revelation. By today's lights, it seems rather dated, obvious and slight. The plot is minimal: despite her children's pleas, a 66-year-old widow insists on looking for work. She manages to get a job as a seamstress but is fired after one day. Depressed and lonely, she spends a night with her daughter and son-in-law. Then she decides to try again. Fade...
...Welles was not made for that more contemporary medium, TV. His Falstaffian girth, so impressive on stage and screen, seemed grotesque when stuffed into the small tube. The voice that shivered the old Philco during the ( Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...
DIED. William Balderston, 86, former president and chairman of the Philco Corp., who helped mastermind the promotion and popularization of the car radio; in Abington, Pa. Philco bought rights in 1930 to a radio that could be operated in a car, and under Balderston's guidance, sales passed the million mark five years later. Near the end of his presidency (1948-54), Philco was first in the U.S. in car-radio and air-conditioner sales...