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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Church services will come on screen via ABC, which schedules a Christmas Eve service (n p.m.) from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Midnight Mass at Washington, D.C.'s Church of the Sacred Heart, and NBC, which plans to telecast Midnight Mass from Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral and a Christmas Day (n a.m.) service inside the Washington (D.C.) Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: HOLIDAY CHEER | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Congratulations," said a well-wisher last week to NBC's newly appointed vice president for television programming. "You mean condolences," replied Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, a short, dark man of 52 with a talent for finding talent. Sacks was only half kidding. With the possible exception of watching the screen all day long, no task in TV is tougher than figuring out how to keep it filled. One of the big challenges facing Sacks and his fellow programmers on the other networks : the current season has turned into a big Unspectacular, and so far there is little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pied Piper's Problems | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Last week the planners felt the first big wallop of another challenge: through local stations in major viewing areas, a broadside of some 2,500 recently available pre-1949 Hollywood movies began hitting the TV screen as if it were a bull's-eye. In a blaze of ballyhoo, Manhattan's WCBS began unwrapping its $20 million package of 725 M-G-M films at the rate of two a day. With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pied Piper's Problems | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Anatole Litvak. Director Litvak made his worst mistake in connection with Ingrid Bergman. Her acting is competent, but only now and then toward the end of the picture, almost as if by accident, can the moviegoer see what he probably will want most of all to see on the screen: the fact that, seven years after her abdication as a movie queen, Actress Bergman is still remarkably lovely to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created what is certainly the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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