Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forsaking wrestling, homespun comedy, and a war movie on other channels, perhaps as many as 1,000,000 New Yorkers-an impressive 8.1 Nielsen rating-turned one evening last week to a political telecast that combined all three. After ten days of negotiations between staffs, Democratic Incumbent Robert F. Wagner and Republican Challenger Louis J. Lefkowitz met dais to dais in their campaign for mayor of New York...
...British have such a dead-keen sense of humor that they will burst into laughter on hearing that Prince Philip likes to call his wife "Sausage." Perhaps desperate for relief, penny-wise BBC-TV spent $10,000 last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like...
...problems of slums and schools will be discussed next Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Loeb Experimental theatre. Participants in "The Eleventh Hour in Education," taped for telecast the next night on WGBH-TV, will be Edward Logue of the Boston redevelopment Authority; Cyril Sargent, an associate with Logue; William Lynde, Superintendent of Schools in Fall River; Charles Boeham, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania; and Thomas E. Crooks, Director of the Summer School, who moderates the two-hour debates...
...final night's telecast, Castro himself, decked out in beret, cigar and low-slung .45, strode onstage for the finale. As the chorus of "to the wall" reached a crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...
...television version of their deliberations was beamed the day before Melvin Davis Rees Jr., 32, a Hyattsville, Md., dance band musician, was to appear for sentencing for the crime that could bring him life imprisonment. Appearing before Judge Roszel C. Thomsen, Rees's lawyers argued that the telecast had portrayed the jurors as discussing issues not raised in the trial, including the question of Rees's sanity. "We do not know if the defendant's rights were interfered with or not," said Defense Attorney William J. O'Donnell. Judge Thomsen agreed and, pending a close look...