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...same time, however, President Pusey and Dean Bundy denied that they had received any specific contract from the NCAA to telecast the 1954 Harvard-Yale football game on a national basis...
...York City, Police Commissioner Francis Adams announced plans for an experimental city-wide telecast of the daily police lineup. Eventually, TV sets will be placed in New York's 85 precinct stations so that almost all detectives will be able to attend the line-up without leaving their own commands...
...Spring Valley, N.Y., ex-Convict George Poper was arrested after winning $165 for his hard-luck story on TV's Strike It Rich. When a kinescope of the show was telecast in Austin, Texas, Poper was recognized as a fugitive from an indictment for embezzlement and theft...
From the standpoint of the televiewer, pay-as-you-see promises great benefits: better shows and no commercials. Broadway shows and top sporting events now kept off the air because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them...
Bing Crosby Show (CBS-TV). The Crooner's first regular telecast, a long time abrewing, arrived last week with an unmistakable thud. The filmed show was reminiscent of many of the earliest TV efforts: Crosby spent much of his time standing in front of a stage curtain, delivering mild jokes that were greeted with uproarious laughter supplied by a film sound track. Jack Benny appeared as a foil and traded fairly predictable banter with Crosby. Bing sang four songs, danced with a chorus, and was so smothered in facial makeup as to be expressionless. The most exciting thing...