Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club Playhouse will run off old films from Ford Theater. Folksy Bandleader Lawrence Welk, whose climb to the No. 5 position in the ratings began with a summer replacement spot two years ago, will obligingly tootle all summer long. Grand Inquisitor Mike Wallace, the chain's "biggest" new talent, will be around on Sunday nights. Already filling in for vacationing Kukla, Fran & Ollie is Sports Focus, a new show featuring sports news and interviews with top athletes. There will also be reruns of many ABC standbys...
...Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today in the ratings. TV's best drama factory, Playhouse 90, will replay only the shows it originally did on film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night...
...days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with a bit of talent is driving a car-and he deserves...
Died. Paul Bernard Krichell, 74, chief scout for 37 years for the New York Yankees, credited with discovering more baseball talent than any other man in history (he signed some 200 players including Lou Gehrig, Leo Durocher, Vic Raschi, Red Rolfe, Phil Rizzuto, Tony Lazzeri); after long illness; in New York City...
...debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Du Pont had already put $49 million into the company's stock. By risking another $31 million of its capital, Du Pont bailed out Durant and put the company back on course, not only with cash, but also with managerial talent. Du Pont President Pierre S. du Pont, who had been actively interested in G.M. since 1915, stepped in as G.M. president in 1920, set about reorganizing the company. Du Pont was responsible for replacing Durant's old-fashioned one-man rule with a new kind of decentralized management in which...