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Puzzled Spacemen. Crandall has been doing this from 7:45 until midnight for a month. He got the job because WNBC was flopping on the bottom of the New York radio ratings barrel. Noting that RKO's WOR had long held top position by putting on talk shows around the clock, WNBC decided to do the same-with Brad Crandall doing most of the talking...
...called the box-office at the RKO Keith Memorial Theatre and asked them to hold two complementary tickets for the Harvard CRIMSON reviewer. "We don't do that," the Lady said. "Let me talk to the manager," I said. "Listen," the manager said, "You want to review our moom pitcher, you pay to get in like anybody else. We don't care if the University reviews our pitchers or no." I'd been assigned, so we took a ride down to Boylston Street anyway...
Althought I haven't seen Charade, I have been to the RKO Keith. It is a very big, very ugly theatre patronized by the Medicare crowd (large groups of garrulous old ladies who perpetually explicate the action for one another--e.g. "Oooh, now he's holding her hand."--and the clusters of teenage couples playing kissy-face and huggy-bear...
...Actress Lupino became Director Lupino in motion pictures more than a dozen years ago (among her credits are RKO's Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Hitch-Hiker). She got into television in 1956 when Producer Joseph Gotten asked her to direct The Trial of Mary Surratt for NBC's On Trial series. Since then she has directed more than 50 television shows-everything from Have Gun, Will Travel to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where she developed such a cool hand with terror that she is now known in the trade as "the female Hitch...
WHCT, which is owned and operated by RKO General, has 200 subscribers for its pay programs and hopes to expand to 5,000 in 1963. Each pays $10 to have a Decoder attached to his set. The pay programs are broadcast in scrambled signals, and the Decoder, which looks like a table radio, straightens them out. The subscribers pay 75? a week as a basic rental fee, plus an average of $1.25 for the programs they select. Costs are recorded on a tape in the Decoder. The viewer rips it off like a grocery bill and sends it in with...