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Last week the New York Herald Tribune's able Radio Columnist John Crosby stumbled open-eyed into what is one of radio's largest arsenals of bridge music. Picking his way through the library at Manhattan's WOR (Mutual), he found on file, under generic titles such as Love, Hate, Conflict, etc., "6,000 bridges,* and believe me [they] run the gamut." Even more to his satisfaction, most of them had also been tagged by their embittered composers with tongue-in-cheek titles "more descriptive than the music...
Promising the viewer "double-feature enjoyment right in his own armchair," Ford Movie Night (Mon. 7 130 p.m., Manhattan station WOR-TV) this week went into direct competition with neighborhood movie theaters...
Dealer Horgan was able to buy so much unbooked time because station WOR-TV has been "dark" two nights a week. Pleased with the advertising impact to be expected from one sponsor taking over a station for a whole evening, Horgan further reported that the films, TV time, agency fees and services of 260-lb. M.C. "Happy" Felton fit into a modest weekly budget...
Uneasy over the uproar about television's slipping moral standards, two stations last week ran for shelter to the bosom of the Motion Picture Production Code. President Theodore Streibert of Manhattan's WOR-TV hailed the code as a guide to "what is acceptable and in good taste." In Philadelphia, Publisher Walter H. Annenberg. of the Inquirer urged the manager of his station WFIL-TV to pay particular attention to code provisions dealing with "the depiction of crimes against the law, the use of obscenity and vulgarity, and restrictions as to costumes and dances...
...times. The throaty "Heigh-ho, everybody!" was crooned above the strains of My Time Is Your Time. Last week Rudy Vallee, older (48), greying and without a megaphone, was back at the old stand with his new Rudy Vallee Show (weekdays, 11:15 a.m.) over Manhattan's WOR...