Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the networks, ABC and CBS share top honors with three prizewinning programs apiece. ABC's Elmer Davis and CBS Views the Press divided the award for reporting; ABC's Theatre Guild on the Air and CBS's Studio One split the drama prize; ABC's Boston Symphony wins the music award; CBS's Documentary Unit series gets the education award. Mutual gets only a tiny ray of reflected glory (one of its affiliated stations won a prize). NBC gets nothing...
...television station (Chicago's second), a razzle-dazzle opening. Boss Bertie McCormick, laid up with a cold, had to watch the ceremonies on the big screen at his Wheaton estate; but Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, Mayor Kennelly and Governor Green turned up at the studio to blow congratulatory kisses...
Born. To Jackie Coogan, 33, Hollywood's No. 1 baby bright-eyes of the '20s (now co-owner of a small movie studio), and third wife Ann McCormack Coogan, 23, ex-nightclub singer: their first child, his second, a daughter; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Joann Dolliver. Weight...
...leading cinemag publishers* are now making a strenuous bid to get their movie advertising back. Their method: a $50,000 "presentation" to studio heads, based on a two-year survey made by Columbia University's Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld. The Lazarsfeld survey, made public last week, contends that movie-magazine readers are 1) the "opinion leaders" among moviegoers and thus 2) make or break a film at the box office...
...sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...