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...chatting," explains Earl Selby, a top reporter and columnist on the Philadelphia Bulletin. "The problems may not be earthshakers, but they hit the neighbor where he lives." Selby's chats take place Mondays through Fridays at 6:25 p.m. on Mr. Fixit, a local show telecast by Station WCAU-TV. Sometimes blond, crew-cut Earl Selby, 37, uses his five minutes to point up some civic horror, as when he appeared unshaven and in tattered clothes to talk about Skid Row and what it costs the city-$650,000 in relief and a high incidence of tuberculosis. Another time...
...temporarily off the air. The show, a panel program on which three experts try to identify various articles from museum collections, had to substitute an old kinescope for last week's show when it was discovered that nine valuable museum pieces had vanished from the studios of station WCAU-TV. The articles-a bronze spearhead, a Balinese wood carving, a bronze Indian antelope and some African sculpture-were recovered from a city dump six miles away. Said the trash remover: "I looked over the things after they'd been brought back. They still looked like junk...
Action in the Afternoon (weekdays, 3:30 p.m., CBS-TV) has a permanent outdoor set: a Western cowtown built by Philadelphia's WCAU-TV on a vacant lot. But, though the TV camera gets outdoors, it has little freedom: there are no long chases on horseback or free-for-all barroom brawls in the movie horse-opera tradition. The dialogue limps even more obviously than the camera. Action in the Afternoon, still without sponsor, is an experiment that needs a lot more work...
Education: What in the World (WCAU, Philadelphia), for the "stimulating manner in which it brings noted scholars to the screen for a delightfully entertaining and informal display of their learning...
...actor, Douglas was born only yesterday. For all but the last three of his 41 years he had been practically everything else-including fast shuffles as a lifeguard, paint salesman and professional football player. His first radio job was as an announcer on Philadelphia's WCAU, a $55-a-week steppingstone to a far fatter income as a sports and special-events broadcaster...