Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Professor Levi informed the education ministry that the bundle had "mysteriously disappeared," and Education Minister Guido Gonella rushed into action. Fearing that the questions had fallen into student hands, Gonella ordered all examinations throughout Italy halted. It took the ministry staff three days to make up a new set of questions; meanwhile, 11,200 examiners sat around marking time...
Turning to set manufacturers, FCC suggested that they get right to work turning out sets that, at least, could pick up CBS color telecasts in black & white. As a prod for the reluctant manufacturers, who are having trouble making enough sets for the current market, FCC hinted that if the manufacturers' response is lukewarm it might make a final decision in favor of CBS next month...
...sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules Herbuveaux: "New York thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that the stage can't cure, and Hollywood thinks there's nothing wrong...
...such shows, thus far only Garroway at Large, sponsored by Congoleum-Nairn Corp., has been a conspicuous commercial success, but their total impact on TV has been enormous. Fred Allen, due to make his own TV bow this month, says: "The Chicago shows are making an effort to do something. They're short on money, short on talent, but long on inventiveness." And NBC's Herbuveaux, who believes in a change of pace, adds: "After half an hour of being beat over the head by New York, people enjoy a half-hour of leaning back with Chicago...
...there a shortage of nurses? The California State Senate Committee, investigating the problem in Los Angeles, last week heard a disarmingly simple explanation: nurses make such good wives...