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After dropping down to the Air Force University at Montgomery, Ala. to make a commencement speech, highhanded TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey made some less salutary remarks on a telecast. His target: Montgomery, the state's capital; it gets so hot there, said Godfrey, that folks would just curl up and die if they didn't have air conditioning. Its civic pride bruised, Montgomery's daily Advertiser promptly cracked back: "Before we comment on Arthur Godfrey's wicked attack . . . we want it clearly understood that we don't listen to the bum." Regretted the Advertiser...
Village Schoolmaster. These fine points I danced through the British press last week in the kind of theological Donny| brook that used to delight Christian polemicists. It began with a BBC Easter telecast of Family Portrait, a play by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen that ran for 14 weeks on Broadway in 1939 and for four weeks in London in 1948. Theme of the play: the hostility and lack of comprehension by Jesus' brothers to His mission. Britain's Bernard Cardinal Griffin lost no time in protesting that the play's assumption that Jesus had blood...
...successive mornings only to be met each time with fresh postponements. But this failure to make a rendezvous with fission only brought out the essential pluck of the network newscasters. CBS's Charles Collingwood tried hard to keep his end up by filling in with a telecast from Las Vegas where, amid the clatter of one-armed bandits, he solemnly asked the proprietor of The Sands Hotel if he was used to A-blasts (he was). NBC's Dave Garroway was reported by his mates on the Today show as having dug his own trench out in Yucca...
...Harvard-Yale game will almost certainly not be televised next fall. The date of the contest, Nov. 19, has been selected by the National Broadcasting Company for a national telecast' of the traditional U.C.L.A. Southern California encounter...
...market in a playlet about the joys of being a small investor, while on Youth Wants to Know. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright (see BUSINESS) deplored the market's excesses. Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart got in the act by appearing on Walter Winchell's ABC telecast for the express purpose of asking Winchell some friendly questions about his broadcast stock tips. Unfortunately, the Senator began by answering questions instead of asking them, and whenever he seemed likely to get in stride, was forced to make way for a commercial for Gem razors...