Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie's Friends...
...question-and-answer show filmed in Washington and telecast in Madison, Proxmire attacked Johnson and much that is sacred to him: 1) the control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A condensation of James Agee's prizewinning 21/2-hr. "Lincoln Series," first telecast...
...Richard Nixon. Day before Nixon was due in Manhattan to boost the campaign of G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Kenneth Keating and G.O.P. candidates for Congress, Rockefeller's campaign adviser, State Chairman L. Judson Morhouse, got Nixon on the phone in New England, asked him to cancel his scheduled statewide telecast from Manhattan lest he rock the Rockefeller boat...
Nixon was taken aback. He told Morhouse that the TV time was booked, that it would look strange to cancel his TV broadcast at the last minute without explanation. Nixon added that he would be willing to call off the telecast if Morhouse insisted but would have to explain publicly just why. The point: loyal G.O.P. voters in upstate New York might well resent the cancellation, not to mention the slight to national party unity. Morhouse hurriedly called back to say go ahead with the telecast. Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech-which even stony-hearted critics ruled...