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Though he is a teacher at heart, Don Herbert hates the dry stuffiness of a classroom as much as any truant schoolboy. On Mr. Wizard, his popular science show for kids (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he uses brief, ad lib comment instead of hectoring lectures, everyday objects like balloons and tumblers instead of beakers and fractionating columns, and he would rather conduct his experiments with a potato or a spinning top than with test tubes and Bunsen burners...
...Italy instead of teaching in a U.S. high school. After the war he was sidetracked once again, became a freelance radio writer and actor in Chicago, helped create the memorable It's Your Life series of documentaries. Last March, he got the idea for Mr. Wizard, sold it to NBC and hired twelve-year-old Bruce Lindgren as his helper and sometimes skeptical stooge...
White's Scandals, The Wizard of Oz, Du Barry Was a Lady), back as a Broadway comic for the first time in seven long years, was making his entrance in the hit revue, Two on the Aisle...
...cast as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. The job took six months and almost put him in the hospital. The banks of arc lights used for color film created murderous heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It took two hours a day to apply his tricky makeup, and in every scene he was dependent, not only on his own art, but on a lackey who perched above him with a fishing rod and manipulated his tail...
Brave New World. Television is the best example. In 1923, Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, Westinghouse's Russian-born wizard, invented the eye of the modern TV camera-the iconoscope, and developed the kinescope. Sarnoff then called television "a dream whose shadowy outlines are beginning to appear on the far horizon," and set to work to make it come true. In 1928, RCA opened an experimental TV station in New York and during the next 20 years poured $50 million into television. At the opening of New York's World...