Word: interviews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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International News Service Reporter Ruth Montgomery knew Edgar was in town, and she had heard he had some critical opinions of brother Dwight's Administration. When she first called for an interview, Edgar was about to go out to Griffith Stadium and asked if she would call back at111 o'clock next morning. But at 9 a.m. Newshen Montgomery was awakened by her telephone: a cheery Edgar was on the line, wanting to know if she could hustle right over to the Statler. Edgar had plenty on his mind-so much that after 50 minutes of breathless note...
...panel shows off the air since October, the programs may be taking greater risks, especially in trying to woo celebrities as contestants. Showman Nils T. Granlund, who won $10,000 from The Big Surprise on "extremely easy" questions, admits that some of the questions he answered during his screening interviews may have turned up on the show itself. One baseball star who was approached to appear on $64,000 Question says that he was asked for a commitment that he would go for the top prize but was assured that his questions would be batting-practice pitches. Connecticut...
...anniversary line of 1957 trucks, International Harvester spent $100,000 on a closed-circuit TV program beamed at pep-talk luncheons for 10,000 dealers in 48 cities of 32 states. Hired for $7,500, Commentator Edward R. Murrow emceed the show, used his Person to Person format to interview top Harvester officers about products and plans. To promote its Yellow Pages, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. a fortnight ago hired Cinemactor Walter Pidgeon to emcee a 59-city closed-circuit TV show for potential classified advertisers and member phone companies...
Died. Alice Rohe, 81, veteran spinster journalist and magazine writer, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau (United Press in Rome, 1914), the first woman (1927) to interview Mussolini after his rise to power; in Manhattan...
Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview that if the rate of spending Eisenhower has proposed for the year beginning July 1 isn't lowered "it is probable the budget won't be balanced...