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Extra Hazard. In the New York metropolitan area, viewers who wanted to watch either show were faced by an additional hazard-the necessity of ungluing their small fry from the channel that featured the 1933 movie King Kong on station WOR-TV's Million Dollar Movie. Some distraught parents reported that their entranced children had watched the single-minded pursuit of Fay Wray by the colossal gorilla every single night of the five it was shown. Said a happy WOR executive: "This has been the biggest thing since Davy Crockett...
...learn a whole new set of heroes when I came south," says Ted Adams, but Jim Crow never became one of them. It is on this subject that Adams' views differ most deeply from the majority of his fellow Southern Baptists. The Wor'd Alliance is on record as saying: "Discrimination and segregation ... are ethically and morally indefensible and contrary to the Gospel of Christ." But Ted Adams knows that such ringing phrases from the leadership are largely ignored by the rank and file. Like many another Southern church leader, he is careful not to push the burdened...
...Neil swung a $12 million deal for the Don Lee network with its 45 Western radio stations. A year later, he got control of Manhattan's WOR and WOR-TV by buying out Macy's interest, and later got control of Mutual. At the same time, General Tire had been merging all its radio-TV holdings, which became General Teleradio in 1952, with Tom O'Neil as president of the new company. Says his father: "That Tom, he makes money...
...bought 30 old pictures from the Bank of America (which it had got through foreclosure), including Miracle of the Bells and Arch of Triumph. O'Neil called his programs "Million Dollar Movie," and ran what amounted to a movie house on Mutual's New York station WOR-TV, showing each film as often as three times daily. The response surprised even O'Neil; so many people tuned in on the show in the course of a week that it got a top cumulative-audience rating in the New York area...
...Manhattan, station WOR-TV discovered how to survive in an area containing seven competing TV stations. The answer: movies. Showing 59 hours of films a week, WOR is editing the films to suit its viewers. Last week the Italian film My Beautiful Daughter (dubbed-in English dialogue) featured a beauty-contest scene with girls in Bikinis. The scene was cut for "family showing" (9 to 10 p.m.) but restored for the popular late-at-night version...