Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Manhattan, Broadway had just lost two more legitimate theaters to TV:* the 3,000-seat Center Theatre will be converted by NBC into one of the world's largest TV studios; the Mansfield Theatre (former home of such Broadway hits as The Green Pastures, Anna Lu-casta), which CBS will lease for five years. In Hollywood, CBS announced last week that it was also buying a 13-acre site now occupied by Gilmore Stadium, the ball park of the Pacific Coast League Hollywood Stars. At a cost of $35 million, CBS will erect a five-building Television City there...
...between are analysts like CBS's Eric Sevareid, a measured, calm-voiced reporter who is hard-put to give both sides of every question in his allotted 5 minutes; NBC's Morgan Beatty, who alternates reading the minds of the Politburo with such "colorful" items as Hollywood's reporting an increased G.I. demand for pinup girls; and Mutual's Frank Edwards, who claims to have tipped his listeners in advance to the B-29 bombing on the Naktong front and usually sounds willing to punch anyone who disagrees with...
...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Dante's Divine Comedy...
Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). Pat O'Brien in True Report...