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Only R. I.'s Al Wiley can hope to give the Mikkola men competition in the sprints. Wiley did 9.8 in the 100, and 21.5 in the 220 last week against Providence College...
Even Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, a member of the Kefauver committee, who has introduced a resolution to consider the problems of televising Congress, saw some insurmountable obstacles ahead. Some of them: "Which parts of a congressional debate should be televised? Who would be assigned to speak during the TV period? For how long? Could any man be entrusted with the power of determining who would be seen and heard by possibly 40 million voters?" Without the most delicate handling of the whole television question, Wiley warned, "televised hearings will degenerate into three-ring circuses, fourth-rate stage productions...
...H.Y.R.C. also passed a resolution commending Senators Fulbright, Tobey, Kofauver, Wiley, and O'Connor for their work in exposing crime throughout the United States. The junior G.O.P.ers also favored more telecasting of Congressional hearings to make the public more aware of crime in politics...
...testimony, rushed to the witness stand and begged the leather-faced Costello to smile for the TV audience, the TV cameras left the Senate committee high & dry until Costello graciously obliged. That the committee itself felt some uneasiness was indicated this week when Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley suggested that the Senate Rules Committee make a thorough study of the question of televising congressional proceedings...
Songstress Lee Wiley's clippings go back to radio's big-band days, when she was a featured vocalist with Leo Reisman and co-starred with Paul Whiteman. Then illness sent her to Arizona for a long rest, and in recent years the name Lee Wiley has been little more than a blurred name on a few choice jazz records. But now, with her haunting soprano as sure as ever, Lee Wiley is staging a comeback...