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Music: a double award, to CBS's New York Philharmonic and to NBC's regional Standard Symphony broadcast (and recently telecast) to eleven Western states...
...Corp. of America announced that it is ready to start commercial broadcasts of color TV and production of color sets. To prove it, RCA last week invited the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee to its research center in Princeton, N.J. for a demonstration. From Manhattan, 45 miles away, RCA telecast a special 20-minute variety show (Dolores Gray, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, the Hit Parade dancers) in full color. At show's end, dazzled committeemen gave rave notices to RCA's system. "It's amazing!" said Committee Chairman Charles A. Wolverton...
...system is completely compatible (i.e., the telecast in color which the committee saw was received in black & white on regular receivers in homes in the New York area). Viewers can also control color intensity (a flick of the brightness knob can change red to pink), while those who weary of watching color can switch back to black & white by another turn of the knob...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The hundredth telecast, with Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Martin & Lewis, Donald O'Connor...
...House. Though Betty Furness is the star of its kitchen, the man of the Westinghouse is its $203,250-a-year president, Gwilym Alexander Price. It was he who took the gamble two years ago of spending $2,000,000 on the football telecasts that made Betty's face more familiar than the players'. It was he who staked another $3,000,000 last year to telecast the Chicago conventions, where Betty was shown oftener than Eisenhower or Stevenson. Price thinks the money well spent, modestly jests: "That girl's worth more to this company than...