Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Liebman confidently expects that these financial headaches will be eased by the aspirin of top-notch entertainment. CBS has already shifted the Ed Wynn Show, the Saturday Night Revue's strongest competitor, to Tuesdays. "We're trying to make people feel that they're eavesdropping on a Broadway show," says Liebman. "I think we can do it, too." There was only one evidence of self-doubt: "I just hope NBC doesn't expect us to keep this up 52 weeks a year...
...Threshold. RCA believes that either or both tubes may prove to be the final answer. "There are still some refinements we want to make. We are not fully satisfied with either, right now," said RCA Vice President Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom. "We want more dots, for one thing, to bring the definition of the picture up ... We feel sure that a tricolored kinescope of this kind marks the beginning of color television in the home. This marks the passing over the threshold...
...worries had to do with his specialty: batting at a consistently better clip than any other player of his time. It is his earnest and sorrowful conviction that the pitching in the American League is getting better & better as time rolls on. If so, this will obviously make it even more difficult than it has been in the past for Ted Williams to do what he wants to do every time he comes to bat, i.e., hit the ball into the right-field stand...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...
...Little, Dubious. Matthew Smith, who lost his two sons in the R.A.F. in World War II, is living alone these days in a tiny flat in grubby Chelsea. The 61 bright watercolors and drawings of still lifes, models and landscapes, which make up the bulk of his current show, were painted, he says, "for relaxation." He did the work sitting in bed, his drawing block propped against his knees. Some were sketches for the oils he paints in furious three-hour sessions at his nearby studio...