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...Once experiment-minded in summer, CBS contemplates only one new show: a live comedy-variety spot for young (29) Dick Van Dyke, an Orson Beanish kind of comic who earlier served on To Tell the Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Summer Slump | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...witless nightclub gossipists. For the first time in its ten years. Kraft TV Theater will maintain its $50,000 winter budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer show is a new "low highbrow'' quiz called High Low with Charles Van Doren as a panelist. Continuing live in their oldtime slots: Twenty One, Steve Allen, Alcoa-Good-year, Lux Video Theater. Good Music-Making Perry Como gets a relaxed substitute in 27-year-old Julius La Rosa, who will pull a 13-week tour in color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Summer Slump | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...attributed this to two factors: first, the low standards in American high schools, caused by the belief that "education can be acquired without discipline"; second, the gramophone-record type of education," which made knowledge a substitute for thought. Goodhart saw this trend in recent quiz contests, of which he claimed, "The more useless the information, the more admiration its possessor inspires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodhart Scores U.S. Education Before Graduate School Alumni | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Bertelson is a candidate for honors in History and Literature and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in November. Freeman, an honors candidate in Music, has been a piano soloist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and directed a musical quiz show on WHRB...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives Several Awards And Fellowships | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

Within minutes, NBC was being bombarded with calls and wires, mostly from doctors who protested that Bloomgarden had also given a noun, "coccyx," instead of the adjective "coccygeal." Either both contestants were right or both were wrong. Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica admitted to an inconsistency in the quiz answers that they had approved for the show. Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle of the Bones | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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