Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazement of NBC and Steve Allen, and the consternation of CBS and Ed Sullivan, the battle of Sunday at 8 (TIME, July 9) took an unexpected turn. In only his second appearance at that critical TV hour, NBC's Steve Allen, aided by his guest star, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, last week badly beat CBS's Ed Sullivan with a Trendex rating of 20.2, and 55.3% of the audience, against Sullivan's 14.8 rating and 39.7% of the audience. Except for a couple of one-shot shows (Martin and Lewis twice) and a Spectacular (Inside Beverly Hills...
...University is failing to make even a good pretense of being an institution of learning. By closing its libraries on Saturday afternoon and Sunday it is forcing on the student the attitude that learning is a job separate from the student's life, a five days a week and half-day Saturday job. The University's libraries should be open all weekend for the many who do not believe that education stops from 1:00 p.m. Saturday to 8:45 a.m. Monday. Margaret Sue Diehl
Dormitories are fine to sleep in, but the Elvis Presley records are not exactly soothing to somebody who wants to read. The Harvard Summer School should provide an adequate place to study on Saturday, and especially Sunday. Judith Kursch
...students are invited to a "membership mixer" sponsored by the Harvard Zionist Society this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Harvard Student Union. There will be a brief round table discussion on the current crisis in the Middle East followed by a program of folk and social dancing...
...rapid-fire delivery, and a quiet way of being funny that is like nobody else's. Unlike many TV comedians, he is likely to get better as he goes along, and NBC has proved its faith in him by giving him a three-year contract in the Sunday-at-8 spot...