Word: rods
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Writers Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Rod Serling and half a dozen others are facing the new challenge, but because of TV's commercial limitations and the fact that it rests on a billion dollar advertising industry, no writer can have an easy time. A writer is dictated to, in a degree, by advertising agencies and sponsors about what he may write. Example: on a drama show sponsored by a milk firm, the customer may not always be right, but she is always good. Mothers buy milk and, therefore, on these shows there are no bad or even neurotic mothers...
...Black Rod! Black Rod!" rang the cry down Westminster's vaulted corridors. The Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked...
During the two-day affair, the local drivers took three of the hill climbing events. Pete Magie (Flat) won the Class H; Jeff Barach (Volkswagen) Class G; and Rod Nerney (Ford Thunderbird) Class...
Dale Junta will play number one, and is followed by Peter Krogh, Manny Elizalde, Rod Nichols, Larry Sears, and Al Goldman. Dave Lane will also see action in the third doubles match...
There were some off-the-air items of note: 1) Patterns, the hit Kraft TV Theater show written by Rod Serling (TIME, Jan. 24), is scheduled to become a movie produced by Broadway's Jed Harris; 2) TV Producer Lou Cowan depressed sensitive viewers by announcing that a new quiz called The $64,000 Question is being readied for June. The gimmick: a lucky contestant, by continuously doubling his stake, can run $1 to a maximum of $64,000. This will take weeks, and when the money gets big enough, the contestant will be imprisoned in a glass-enclosed...