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KTLA's General Manager Klaus Landsberg was amazed when the mail brought 20,000 Marco cards before the first program. After the show he began to get telegrams and calls from other TV stations asking how to set up the game. Commented Los Angeles Mirror TV Columnist Hal Humphrey gloomily and probably accurately: ". . . Intuition and past experience with the sheeplike tendencies of TV program directors lead me to believe that we haven't seen the end of it, only the beginning...
...passed the House of Commons by a vote of 291-265, and now faces the House of Lords. In order to squeeze through Parliament, the bill had been so adulterated that commercial TVmen complained that it combined the worst features of government and commercial TV. Grumbled the London Daily Mirror: "It is all snaffle, bit and blinkers, but no horse...
Around the U.S., editors agreed that the resolution was a step in the wrong direction. To City Editor Ralph Shawhan of the Los Angeles Mirror, it was the beginning of "a gradual attempt [by] all the little pipsqueaks and politicians to suppress the news generally." Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News: "Editors are getting pretty sore with lawyers who seem to believe courts belong to them...
...Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature and smiles bittersweetly at what it sees...
...Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht. A big, disorganized and frequently fascinating look in the mirror by a prolific softie who always made like a toughie (TIME, June...