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Divorced. Jack Webb. 33. deadpan star (Sergeant Friday) and director of radio and TV's even-paced crime show. Dragnet; by Cinemactress Julie London. 26 (The Red House); after six years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
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...satisfying colorcast of the opera Carmen to hundreds of invited guests in Manhattan, and last week followed it with the first closed-circuit broadcast from New York to Hollywood, where a group of moviemen were unhappily impressed by the vivid picture and surprisingly fine texture of color TV. Dragnet began shooting its films in color, and Bob Hope issued a casting call for the "most colorgenic girls in America" to appear on his first color TV show. Industrial designers Lippincott & Margulies moved into the act by quickly telling sponsors how to pretty up their packages for color TV. Some tips...
...radio, where Philip Morris has it on both CBS and Mutual. It is thus the first radio and TV show to span three networks. On radio the Nielsen ratings place it third, behind Lux Theater and People Are Funny, and well ahead of both Jack Benny and Dragnet. Most of the credit for the show's surprising success goes to ex-Sunday School Teacher Storm, a stable, sunshiny girl who says: "I guess I've always been a kind of Pollyanna. You make the best of a situation and have a good time doing it." Born Josephine Owaissa...
...campaigning has been as flat as his turnpike. He was overconfident, started too late, and let the Democrats gobble up most of the best radio and television time. When he did get on TV he looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey...