Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy Log: "He was the skipper: Kennedy, John F.," announced a voice on ABC's Navy Log last week. On the screen flashed the story of PT 109, a re-enactment of the best known World War II exploits of the ambitious Democratic Senator from Massachusetts. A Japanese destroyer sliced Kennedy's craft in two in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands one day in August 1943. Watertight bulkheads kept the wreckage afloat long enough for Skipper "Shafty" Kennedy, nicely played by Actor John Baer, to direct rescue operations and collect the remains of his crew. Soon...
...start the story, the unmistakable voice soared like a chord out of the TV screen. In the end Narrator Walter Cronkite intoned: "This was the man . . . When will there be another like him?" The marrow in between was a combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk...
Frank Sinatra: At first there were only the bony fingers on the screen snapping out the electric rhythms against a black backstop. Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road ("Lord, I'm gettin' mighty weary of this cotton pickin' load"). With the assured grace of a precision instrument, Crooner Frank Sinatra was making a TV comeback (after a flop in 1952) with his own show and the fattest contract in show business. For 13 half-hour...
...regain lost quality (TIME, Sept. 23), the New York Herald Tribune appeared last week with such innovations as an unsigned column of prophecy called "Radar Screen" and, most notably, 24 additional news columns daily. One day the Trib splurged no fewer than ten of its new columns on a single story: the Trib's considered defiance of a federal judge's order that its TV-Radio Columnist Marie Torre identify one of her news sources...
...Pretty, smartly gowned Mrs. Robert North, 37, now secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, who went there as the wife of a Hollywood screen writer in 1950. She stayed on after his death to run her own bottling and solid carbon dioxide works by putting up $10,000 herself, raising the other $150,000 in local funds. Worth of her business today:$350,000. Yearly profit: upwards...