Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXAMINING the status of television in the troubled first weeks of another season, SHOW BUSINESS turns at cover length to the Private Eyes. Two seasons back, the giveaways dominated the air, and last year the major switch was out of the claustrophobic isolation booth into the West's wide-open spaces. This year, while the Westerns still lead the race for ratings and no week passes without at least a couple of "specials," the Private Eye is muscling in as the top gun. As for the cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin says the five big Eyes ran gun-first...
...when the U.S. will elect a President, NATIONAL AFFAIRS deployed political reporters in force to catch the significant straws. From Albany to Atlanta to Dallas to Sacramento, from Rockefeller to Kennedy to Johnson to Brown, they produced a whole series of beneath-the-surface stories as the presidential season opened in earnest...
...round as a hoot owl's eye, the hunter's moon rose in its full phase last week, and political hunters by the score burst into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver...
Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only...
Harvard's running attack has been outstanding all season, with Boulris the consistent pace-setter. The Jet has finally matured as an outstanding runner, and if his play today measures up to the standard he has set so far this year, Dartmouth will have its hands full...