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Radio Tributes (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). The life of Carl Sandburg, with Dave Garroway, Adlai Stevenson, Ben Hecht. Charles MacArthur...
...Overseas Press Club luncheon in Manhattan, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, in town for a photography exhibition staged by his brother-in-law, famed Cameraman Edward Steichen, told the icwsmen why Steichen's good health is unlikely to wane soon; "Steichen was 76 last April, and he will be 77 next April-my present age. That's the Crapshooter's number, which you're sure to live through...
...Poet Sandburg overstepped his poetic license; Steichen will be 76 next March...
...delight of nocturnal listeners from coast to coast, NBC-TV's glad-libber Steve Allen, 32, met his match and more when septuagenarian Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen...
Weaver has already launched a "Wise Old Men" series to bring such elders as Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Bernhard Berenson onto TV screens, and he likes to talk of whole future programs devoted to cultural events. But Weaver's principal preoccupation is still the problem of turning his gamble into a success among televiewers and advertisers...