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Except for the elections (see above), last week was most notable for three returning shows and an off-screen squabble. Du Mont's second-highest rated program, Life Is Worth Living (the first: professional football), again featured Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, resplendent in his ecclesiastical robes and as pontific in gesture and incisive in speech as before. There were some additions: 1) a new set, giving the appearance of a paneled, tile-floored room, 2) a new statue of the Virgin Mary that was conceived and commissioned by the bishop and introduced as "Our Lady of Television...
...sponsor, Admiral Corp., which last summer announced that the show would be limited to some 60-odd stations. Bishop Sheen countered by promising his fans that he would be seen on "close to 200 stations." His opening show was carried by 126 stations, and at week's end Du Mont reported that the number had reached...
EARNINGS for third quarter are even better than expected. Of the first 100 companies reporting, nearly half said earnings climbed 5% to 50% above 1953's third quarter; seven blue chips (i.e., G.E., Du Pont, RCA, Texas Co., I.B.M., Continental Can, U.S. Gypsum) broke their all-time records for nine-month profits...
President Eisenhower (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., Du Mont, CBS Radio & NBC Radio). Speaking on "Human Rights," from Manhattan...
...invasion of France proceeded, the invaders became more bizarre. A troup of pygmies in plastic helmets gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed M. Marius Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...