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THIS YEAR MY HUSBAND HAD THE GREAT HONOR TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL CONCERT IN THE VATICAN, OFFERED TO THE POPE BY THE ITALIAN RADIO-TV. THE POPE CHOSE THE MUSIC HE LOVED MOST, INCLUDING BEETHOVEN'S FIRST SYMPHONY. HE REQUESTED TO HEAR THIS SYMPHONY JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH...
...inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy-not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said Dwight Eisenhower, in a nationwide radio-TV speech, and he predicted an inevitable tragedy "if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and the weak...
...group; of a heart ailment; at University Hospital, Minneapolis. Walter Schumann's credits were various and occasionally bizarre. In 1941 he published The Hut-Sut Song (lyrics: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit . . ."), also wrote the famed dum-da-dum-dum theme of radio-TV's Dragnet series...
...Gamble. When asked about Jack Paar, the late Fred Allen once said: "Oh, you mean the young man who had the meteoric disappearance." A year ago the description still fitted Paar, sometime minor movie actor and perennial radio-TV summer replacement. He had done well with a radio program and a daytime television show of his own, but never well enough to make it big. One TV executive dismissed him as strictly a "pipe and slipper type." What happened next is told by NBC's Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff: "We faced a critical decision. The America After Dark version...
...food beginning with "b," a farm product beginning with "h." The right answers disclose sections of some famous face on a screen. Like Dotto, a daytime-nighttime show, H-B's nighttime segment is emceed by 20-year-old Jack Linkletter, son of Art Linkletter, famed radio-TV master of ceremonies (People Are Funny). The show's catchy title means nothing, though the haggis is a famed and gamy Scots dish cooked in a sheep's stomach. A recent panel of contestants looked very haggis when it uncovered the entire face of former Secretary of State Dean...