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...million fans proved they could be as loud as they had been loyal. The New York Times complained that "minority" viewers were being disenfranchised. The Washington Times-Herald asked: "Who's responsible for this brainstorm-someone who's mad at the human race?" The late Playwright Robert Sherwood moaned: "Calamity." Last week ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after a ten-year run, and all earlier sounds became mere whimpers. A New Jersey woman wrote Sponsor Gordon Baking Co.: "We do not intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: End of the Affair | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...outlet, moved on from station to station ("Whenever I got a new job I got married to celebrate"). Before his first year on TV was out, hard-drinking Don had missed more than 30 telecasts, but no one seemed to care. He latched onto two shows, Where's Sherwood? and Why Sherwood?, hit the West like a sonic boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mixed-Up Man | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...hasn't got a peaceful mind, and that's why he's one of the freshest and most unpredictable talents on the air today. I hope he never learns to do things 'the right way.' Because that'll be the wrong way for Sherwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mixed-Up Man | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...with modest awards and cozy coteries of readers. In his eleventh novel, he seems to be aiming at a larger audience, possibly including those who read Playboy and Confidential. He may succeed, for he is an extraordinarily versatile writer. In The Works of Love, he sounded like Sherwood Anderson; The Huge Season rang with persistent echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this time he handles sex and violence in the manner of a more or less literate Mickey Spillane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Mean Old Germs. For his oddball efforts, Soupy is rewarded with a vast local audience approaching 1,000,000 and some prestige-pushing visits from such stars as Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Sherwood and Duke Ellington. From his two shows and numberless personal appearances, Soupy will make about $100,000 this year. He writes his own material, virtually runs both shows singlehanded. To thousands of moppets who watch Comics daily, he is a genial, long-faced man in a crushed top hat, an outsized bow tie and a bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Soupy's On | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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