Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling wrestling team decisively beat Andover, 27 to 3, at the I.A.B., losing only one match. John Eastling, Ed Sullivan, and Bob Foster all pinned thier...
First came a spell with a Gilbert & Sullivan road show. Then she starred in a coast-to-coast Merry Widow company, moved on to a grand opera touring company (63 Micaëlas in Carmen, 45 Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria...
...prime beef, a choice hour on television is costly. The hour beginning on Sunday nights at 8 E.S.T. is about as prime as a TV hour can get. In an effort to attract customers, NBC has been working away at the hour for years, while CBS's Ed Sullivan has been dishing it up medium to well done, with viewers taking avidly to his servings. This situation has understandably made NBC officials extremely unhappy; it has caused big executives to fear for their jobs, and even brought NBC's Chairman of the Board Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver himself...
Trouble with Traubel. True, Sullivan had trouble when Soprano Helen Traubel, his operatic guest star, fell ill and could not appear. But this was no mere victory by default. The Sullivan show was enveloped when NBC began its 90-minute Spectacular at 7:30 p.m., half an hour before Sullivan went on. It was outmaneuvered when NBC produced a star-studded, revue-type show that Sullivan could not come close to matching. Sullivan was outscored in the Trendex rating by 26.8 to NBC's 30.1, the highest Trendex rating that any 90-minute NBC Spectacular had ever...
Inside Beverly Hills was neither true, good nor beautiful, but it got inside most U.S. TV homes, was seen by an estimated 54 million people. Said Sullivan, on hearing the bad news: "NBC won a Pyrrhic victory. It took 25 stars to beat me." This week, with NBC once again throwing comedy into the Sunday-at-8 spot, Sullivan could feel confident that the network would not soon repeat its coup of tempting so many viewers to look at so many stars in so indifferent a show...