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...girl," said Sidney Poitier, after having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? "I'd much rather have romantic interludes with Negro girls." So he dreamed up a plot, handed it over to Screen Writer Robert Alan Aurthur, and stepped into the leading role opposite Abbey Lincoln in For Love...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Cliff Robertson, Paul McGrath and Salome Jens in a play by Robert Alan Aurthur about a onetime child prodigy who has become a recluse...
Kwamina (book by Robert Alan Aurthur; music and lyrics by Richard Adler) is the name of the London-educated, medically trained son (Terry Carter) of a dying black African chief, who returns from England to break the hold of an evil witch doctor (Brock Peters) on his superstitious people. Defying racial taboos, he falls in love with a white doctor (Sally Ann Howes). At this point there are enough doctors on stage to perform much-needed surgery on the script, but they never operate...
...freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network that had "made money without spending it," has recently been exporting consultants to help NBC do the same...
...dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder one fights for a position in the marketplace, the poorer the product becomes-all in the name of 'satisfying the mass audience...