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Even standing on her toes, tiny (5 ft., 95 Ibs.) Shari Lewis is hardly likely to inspire a spurt in the spinach market, but she can inspire almost anything or anyone else. Five times a week, more than half a million sets within range of New York's WRCA-TV click on at 9 a.m. for Hi Mom and its highly successful potpourri of sense and nonsense. For prekindergarten children, there are songs and games, puppets and magic; for mothers, there are health tips and stretch-the-budget menus. For late-rising males, who write her lots of letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Charm in the Morning | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...York City's population were U.S. citizens when they arrived, and about half of them continue to speak nothing but Spanish. Last week, by the early dawning (6:307 a.m.) light of TV, some of them were learning their new home's native tongue. The program: WRCA-TV's Aqui se Habla Ingles (English Spoken Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: English Spoken Here | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Producer of the new school show is WRCA-TV's Patricia Farrar, 26, who gets up at 3 a.m. to shepherd her crew through a dry run at 4:45 before the live-camera lesson. Wearily, she alibis the rooster-rousing hour: 1) nothing else is programmed at 6:30, so the unsponsored show costs the station no revenue; and 2) many Puerto Ricans have jobs that get them up early or keep them out late. Also in the show's favor: 80% of New York's Puerto Rican families own television sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: English Spoken Here | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Geoffrey Home, 24, cinemactor (the commando recruit in The Bridge on the River Kwai); and Nancy Berg, 26, actress-model, onetime sandwoman of Manhattan's WRCA-TV late late mattress-sponsored show Count Sheep; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...itself a bigger slice of this audience, Manhattan's WRCA-TV, flagship of the NBC network, moved right into the boudoir last week with a silken five-minute sign-off spot called Count Sheep (weekdays, 1 a.m.). Its star is Nancy Berg, a 24-year-old, Wisconsin-born model, who floats onscreen in filmy lace, stretches her bare arms, yawns delicately, glances teasingly out of her cathode bedroom, pops into bed and out again for a moment's play with her French poodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Beddy-Bye | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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