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...Robert Saudek Associates is a Madison Avenue firm so non-M that its partners think flagpoles are for flags and not (in admen's lingo) for running up ideas to see who will salute. Moreover, the Saudek people consider the word wise an adjective rather than a suffix (as in "Impact-wise, it's terrific"). And they never write memos, preferring to speak to one another in fogless civilized conversation. Their offices, quiet as the board room at Morgan Guaranty Trust, belie the nature of their business. Saudek Associates is just about the best and most versatile packager...
...topnotch Saudek sample came along last week on NBC. Four for Tonight was an unusually witty review in which Tony Randall did a string of sight gags based on Mad magazine, Bea Lillie fanned her way through a couple of her more durable numbers, and Cyril Ritchard went Around the World on 80 Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco...
...Obsolete. Saudek Associates started at the top. Most of its members were with the Ford Foundation's Omni bus, founded their own firm three years ago when Ford pulled out, ran the show successfully for NBC. This season, NBC decided that the spate of specials would make the program obsolete. Rarely has a network been so wrong. Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season...
...from her success on Four for Tonight; a series of twelve "classical" mysteries, opening March 31 with Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. in Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat; and a sort of living prospectus of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (last month Saudek Associates was named the center's exclusive TV producers...
...Potent Group. A Harvard Phi Beta Kappa ('32) and onetime ABC vice president for public affairs, sad-faced Bob Saudek was running the Ford Foundation's TV-Radio Workshop when he developed the idea for Omnibus. Getting the program under way with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike...