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Died. Richard Skelton, 9, son of Comedian Red Skelton; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. After the boy's illness was discovered, Red Skelton took his family on a tour of Europe so Richard could see its lands and peoples before he died...
Fallen Heart. The Oscar Levant Show repels some people and delights most. Drawing on his motley acquaintance, Levant has corralled both name stars and intellectuals as his guests. Eddie Cantor was followed by Christopher Isherwood, Adolphe Menjou by Aldous Huxley, Red Skelton by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His subjects run the gamut from highly intellectual topics to brutal digs. Isherwood told him: "You are like a Dostoevsky character-completely unmasked at all times...
...have won this season's highest Nielsen ratings among spectaculars), Whirlybirds, Official Detective, Walter Winchell File, Sheriff of Cochisc, This Is Alice, Ann Southern Show, The Texan, Willy, The Whiting Girls, Ernestine. Shows that lease production facilities from Desilu: December Bride, Danny Thomas Show, Eve Arden Show, Red Skelton's filmed shows, Lineup, Wyatt Earp, The Real McCoys, Jim Bowie, Meet McGraw, Mr. Adams and Eve, Zone Grey Theater, Trackdown, Richard Diamond, Hey, Jeannie, Four Star Playhouse, Alcoa-Goodyear Theater. The famed I Love Lucy series is also on the air, but owned by CBS, which paid Desilu...
...started with the snowfields of the New Zealand Alps, then moved to Antarctica, where for nearly a year they tested themselves and their tractors in the worst possible weather. Last Oct. 14 he set out from the Ross Sea base, led a supply train with four tractors up the Skelton Glacier to the ice-covered tableland on the far side of Antarctica's main mountain range. When he had established Depot 700 (700 miles from the coast), his job was done, but only about 500 miles separated him from the U.S.-occupied Pole...
Tedium seemed to be growing so fast in TV that Cunningham's outfit tried to measure "the Boredom Factor" by depth interviews, found that heavy percentages of ordinary viewers-not just the critics-yawning at such TV sacred cows as Arthur Godfrey (47%) and Red Skelton (38%). Cunningham feels that the Boredom Factor causes "dial-twitching, vacant-minded viewing, lower ratings" and, as far as the sponsor is concerned, "less penetration-per-skull per dollar...