Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both barriers have fallen. RCA. Admiral, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward have been advertising color sets for $500 or less since early last summer. G.E. will bring out its first under-$500 color set this month. NBC is scheduling at least one color show a night, plans to telecast 120 hours of color during the last three months of 1956; rival CBS is telecasting another five hours of color weekly. Yet even in Chicago, where 38.3 hours of color a week sparkle out from the first U.S. "all-color" station (WNBQ), not more than 5,000 sets are in operation...
...week will be the first of only "five or six" televised speeches. But, as Ike himself pointed out last week, there are "a number of invitations you have to consider," and so far his TV plans have not firmed up. Early next month Nixon will make his first national telecast, reporting on his upcoming swing through 32 states...
...group of madrigals and chansons, performed with a semichorus, went very well save for a couple of imprecise entrances. Outstanding was Monteverdi's Dorinda, with its tortured Mannerist harmonies. "The Promise of Living," from Copland's opera The Tender Land (1953), went far better than on the Chorus' telecast, owing to the use of more singers and rehearsals. The opera was not considered a success; but the criticism was aimed at the libretto and dramatic structure. The music was always warm and limpid...
Kirke Mechem's Rules for Behaviour (1955), with piano obbligato, bore up well on second hearing. Written in a crisp, clean Irving Fine manner, it took its text from some amusing rules for children found in a 1787 church in Williamsburg, Virginia. The concert, like the telecast, ended with Vaughan Williams' robust and lusty antiphon Let all the World in Every Corner Sing...
...only did the two reporters reject the offer, but their ten headquarters colleagues backed them up in their demand that, since they cover headquarters 2 hours a day, they are entitled to get police news first. Kennedy went through with his telecast, but waited until he was off the air to give newsmen the figures that made headlines the next morning (JUVENILE CRIME...