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Spectacular No. 3 (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC) starring Judy Holliday, Steve Allen and a new comic named Dick Shawn, was a disappointment. Intended as a salute to Manhattan's City Center of Music and Drama, the show never got airborne. Funnyman Shawn opened with a long and painfully unfunny monologue about the Confederacy, while Allen and Holliday were given little material with which to overcome that initial handicap. The best number featured Judy as a short-order waitress who gets involved in a ballet rehearsal; the most tedious-except for confirmed balletomanes - was a 20-minute dance revolving...
...Dick Powell, Teresa Wright, Cesar Romero. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Cinemactress Janet Gaynor, and Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Football (Sat. 2:30 p.m., ABC). Wisconsin v. Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...
...smooth!" says the first of them (Shawn Smith), and Quinn begins to rumba toward a sofa, gently oscillating her pelvic region with a towel. "Don't press your luck," warns the second (Mary Ellen Kay), but it is not his luck that Anthony presses...
Fact & Fantasy. In his first two years, he hardly laid eyes on Ross. But Ross had his eye on Shawn. He made him head of the "idea" department, which suggested many of the magazine's articles and cartoons, four years later boosted him to "managing editor for fact," i.e., everything but fiction and cartoons. Only once, in 1936, did Shawn write a piece for the magazine, a wry fantasy called "Catastrophe," in which New York City was completely destroyed by a meteor and quickly forgotten by everyone...
...Shawn plans no changes in The New Yorker formula. Circulation is at a peak 343,580, and net profits, which were $630,000 in 1950, are estimated to be down only slightly for 1951 because of higher taxes and costs...