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...more professors are drifting from their cloistered halls to the glaring arena of television. After his Now and Then show ran for 39 weeks on the CBS network, Professor Baxter became a real celebrity and admits that he has enjoyed every minute of it. He turns up at movie premiéres and Hollywood cocktail parties, gets invited to the Library of Congress to give poetry readings, has built a swimming pool at his South Pasadena home, and relishes reading about himself in the gossip columns. Best of all, he is now financially able to relax during his vacations, instead...
...Chicago Symphony, under Fritz Reiner, gave the U.S. première of Rolf Liebermann's Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra. The Sauter-Finegan Band-sporting bright red jackets amid the longhairs' white ties and tails-played tricky syncopations and harsh tones that showed Swiss Composer Liebermann to be a close follower of Stan Kenton's jazz-style arrangements. The symphonic parts of the work were less exciting, but everybody, from the musicians onstage to the last hipster in the auditorium, had a fine time. Conductor Reiner, who started off his career as a percussionist...
...announced he would make his long-awaited comeback. He dieted furiously and reduced his weight by 40 Ibs. But when it came time to loose the famous voice, he was too weak from dieting. CBS, deciding that Lanza was too big a name to drop from Shower's première, tried a secret expedient. When the monthly show opened last week with Betty Grable and Harry James, Mario merely mouthed the lyrics while some of his three-year-old recordings provided the sound...
...knew kings (Edward VII), premiers (Clemenceau). dictators (Mussolini), marshals (Foch) and famed writers (d'An-nunzio). Charlie Chaplin's gambit at the Paris première of The Kid was not unlike that of many others: "I loved you in New York. You were France, Versailles. You conquered America...
...Jack Paar Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m.. CBS). The première of a new comedy-music show, with Vocalists Betty Clooney, Johnny Desmond...