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Festival of the Performing Arts. The Robards show (see col. 1) will be broadcast in Raleigh, N.C. (WRAL-TV, 4-5 p.m.), Boston (WHDH-TV, 4-5 p.m.), and Philadelphia (WFIL-TV, 3-4 p.m.), plus repeat performances in Washington, D.C. (WTTG, 8-9 p.m.), and New York (WNEW...
...Plop fall the plums." Plums fall very rarely in television, but last week-with that line from an ancient Chinese poem-a major plum indeed was offered on New York's independent WNEW-TV and Washington, D.C.'s WTTG-TV. British Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and his wife, Actress Joy Parker, read poetry for an hour, ranging from Shelley's Ozymandias to T. S. Eliot's Family Reunion, and from Lord Byron's Don Juan to D. H. Lawrence's Bats...
...Other TV stations scheduling the lecture series: New York's WNEW, Kansas City's KMBC, Peoria's WTVH, Decatur, Ill.'s WTVP, Sacramento's KOVR...
...York Daily News bought a full-page ad in the competitive Trib to deliver "an urgent message about the Eichmann trial to every responsible person in the United States." The message: read all about the trial in the News. EICHMANN is INNOCENT, proclaimed New York's radio station WNEW in a full-page teaser ad in the New York Post and the Journal-American. Then, having hooked the reader, the ad continued in small print ". . . until proven guilty"-and announced that WNEW was sending Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor of the war crimes trials in Nürnberg, to watch...
...Manhattan, Superjock Alan Freed, already fired by WABC radio, lost his second job in two weeks, was sacked by WNEW-TV. Showing up for his final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a group of record distributors in thanks for his services. What services? Had he ever taken payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with...