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...best measure of last week's tele vision is that Truth or Consequences' brutal hoax was about the most enter taining item shown. Jack Benny contented himself with a repeat film first shown a year ago; Producer Max Liebman tossed off a lackadaisical show starring Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen and Dancer Chita Rivera; Wide, Wide World contributed a go-minute thinly disguised commercial for General Motors with a visit to the automakers' new Technical Center in Detroit...
...Million-Dollar Movie." Tom quickly showed his father how to make a pocketful on TV. Realizing that General Tele-radio did not have the capital to put on splashy shows like NBC and CBS, O'Neil decided to give his audiences good movies instead. For an average $40,000 apiece, he bought 30 old pictures from the Bank of America (which it had got through foreclosure), including Miracle of the Bells and Arch of Triumph. O'Neil called his programs "Million Dollar Movie," and ran what amounted to a movie house on Mutual's New York station...
Bell Labs, looking ahead, is experimenting with them for charging the storage batteries of rural tele 'hone lines. Frames of them set on poles at Americus, Ga. are performing well, but Bell is worried about the effects of indifferent birds and stone-throwing boys...
...Carol Channing. But Kleinsinger and Darion expect the bulk of their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly seized on such short works as Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Tele phone and Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley. In that company archy and mehitabel should easily hold its own: it is consistently imaginative and toujours...
...educational program of Channel Five, which will probably be WMBT-TV if Massachusetts Bay Telecasters gets control of it, will include daily-half-hour programs in a "Tele-College" series. These programs would be classroom courses designed for both high school students and persons working toward university extension degrees...