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Like Perry Como and Red Skelton, Iraq's Strongman Premier Nuri asSaid believes in the custom of summer replacements. Last week, as Baghdad's asphalt sidewalks turned sticky-soft in the sweltering desert heat, Nuri turned over Iraq's government to Senator Ali Jawdat, then went back to poring over a map on which was circled in ink the fashionable south German spa, Bühlerhohe, near Baden-Baden. First, Nuri confided, he was going to London for a medical checkup, then off to the Black Forest. Later he was returning to London briefly to look after...
...Talent Scouts, and last summer's hot-pop Baritone Vic ("Da Moan") Damone returns with his caramel-whip tunes for a live hour in Godfrey's Wednesday-night spot. Fred Waring replaces Garry Moore's morning show; more Ford Theater reruns will fill in for Red Skelton, and Those Whiting Girls (Singers Margaret and Barbara) replace I Love Lucy. CBS's promising public affairs show, Look Up and Live, last Sunday began a special nine-part summer series aimed at helping teenagers. And daytime's You Are the Jury is an unrehearsed courtroom drama exploring...
...sabbatical, and NBC's George Gobel will try to salvage his popularity by cutting down his exposure. Such perennials as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have taken refuge in limited appearances or filmed situation comedies that produce greater mileage for less material. Next season Red Skelton's half-hour CBS program will be the only full-fledged weekly live appearance by a network comedian...
...Life of Riley, etc. In the once wide-open Hollywood acres used for the location shooting of Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse now stands CBS's Television City, so vast a factory for live TV production that the director of the Red Skelton Show shuttles between his set and the control room by bicycle. NBC's sprawling new $13 million color studios in Burbank, hard by the Warner lot, are even bigger...
...widespread fallacy, they can never do. They are no true test of a performer's popularity, because they are influenced by too many other factors, e.g., the programs that come before and after, the ones on competing stations, the weather, the time of day-even the season. Red Skelton's history on TV shows that a performer may be dropped because he is overwhelmed by his competition, later become a hit in another time slot...