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This time Marquand worries the theme too doggedly, all but writes his book twice. For Sidney Skelton, the novel's narrator, is a highly successful newsbroadcaster who also has the taste of ashes in his mouth, and so rates a pretty full Marquand treatment himself. Sid hates his broadcasting job with its phony buildup. A working newspaperman, he has made good too fast on nothing but a pleasant voice. He can't get used to his big new house in Connecticut or to his wife's yearning to make the social grade...
...Women's Cards. In the end, dumpy Muriel Goodwin runs her hero husband just as she has run him since high-school days. And, up in Connecticut, Mrs. Skelton wins too: Sid decides to stick at his job to make his wife and daughter happy. In marriage, Novelist Marquand seems to be saying a little petulantly, the women hold all the cards...
Flying from Rome to London, Comedian Red Skelton entertained a small but appreciative audience of 54 passengers, including eleven British youngsters homeward bound from the Middle East. The curtain went up when two of the four engines conked out over the Alps. While the third engine sputtered, the fascinated moppets happily watched the red-haired mimic go through 35 minutes of juggling, shadow-boxing and pantomime gags until the plane made an emergency landing in Lyon...
...drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear It Now ends with a four-to ten-minute "closeup" (last week's subject: General Douglas MacArthur...
...stole a march on RCA Victor by launching the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record. At the end of 1948, CBS launched a full-scale talent raid on NBC, and captured such topflight entertainers as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton. Last October, CBS won what seemed at the time to be its biggest victory of all: a 5-to-2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of CBS's color TV over the rival systems of RCA and California's Color Television Inc. Last week...