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...will unleash cascades of color and a record-breaking 100 "specials" (the new regime's replacement for Pat Weaver's word "spectacular"), an increase of 15% over last year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night...
...then called in three out-of-state judges (one of them an old personal friend of Cowboy Russell) to judge the five entries. Last week the judges announced their unanimous choice: a standing figure, palette in hand, staring Montana-like into the distance (see cut). The sculptor: John B. Weaver, curator of the Montana Historical Society. Said the judges: "It captures the spirit of Charles M. Russell, and is worthy of representing him to posterity." At last the trail to Washington seemed to be clear...
Working as he did with a poor play, director Elliot Silverstein achieved some excellent results. The opening performance had some rough spots and could have taken some more rehearsing. Generally speaking, it was still a finely paced and directed presentation. In the title role, Fritz Weaver, appearing for the first time with Group 20, excellently portrayed the sensitive, idealistic, impassioned, and guilt-ridden young king, damned by indecision and out of joint with his century and his inherited occupation...
...boss, one-man Groupthinker Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, bubbled into activity again with a new pro-culture idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close...
Born: Jan. 2, 1906, in Normandy, son of an impoverished weaver and a concierge in a savings bank (who still phones her son to complain of the "mean and wicked" things they say about him in the papers...