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...That Bob Kennedy is a doll," wrote a Washington housewife last week as the Du Mont-televised labor rackets hearings came to a close (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Since the Senate's modern 18-day morality play began, Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. has been bombarded with 10,000 such letters and thousands of phone calls. Three people twitted Du Mont because Liberace had been shoved aside by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair...
Though the hearings cost Du Mont almost $80,000 (almost twice as much as the original estimate), the pulse-takers indicated that in New York alone, Du Mont had quadrupled its daytime audience, even before the star witnesses appeared. Du Mont's ability to function as a public servant was the envy of the networks, but it was the kind of service the big chains, with their high preemption costs and complex affiliate commitments, could ill afford (estimated network carrying cost: more than...
There were, of course, threatening calls charging Du Mont with being "anti-union." The Transport Workers' brogue-nurturing Boss Mike Quill, appearing on Wendy Barrie's show over Du Mont's Manhattan WABD, took the opportunity to lambast Du Mont because "they showed unions in an unfavorable light." Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along...
...quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru, survived six days and five nights while clawing alone up sheer rock and ice. Widely hailed by the Italian press, he replied: "I was no conqueror. I was alone, and the mountain awed me too much. I was full of worries and fear...
...show lacked the hippodrome theatrics of other-day TV hearings, it was a smoothly professional job, with Labor Reporter Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register) and Du Mont's Matt Warren providing knowledgeable commentary. The show was marred only once: as Senator Kennedy illustrated shakedown techniques by playing tapped phone conversations involving extortion, Mollenhoff intruded with extraneous commentary...