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...Sunday things picked up again with a battery of good shows. Camera Three dealt sensitively with the imagist poetry of Dylan Thomas; Omnibus approached the end of its best TV season with a technically superb visit to Harvard University that featured a strong supporting cast of such alumni as Massachusetts' U.S. Senators Leverett Saltonstall and John Kennedy, Johns Hopkins' Vice President Dr. Barry Wood, and Composer Leonard Bernstein. Later Max Liebman contributed another of his spectaculars, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl: it had a fine satiric idea (U.S. career girls, past and present), a talented cast (Bert...
...proceedings will be televised in the same hall where the Law School put on the mock trial for "Omnibus" last week...
...impossible adequately to thank the hundreds of University teachers, students, and employees who voluntarily and cheerfully gave their time so that OMNIBUS might "visit" Harvard. On balance. I have hopes that the program will have a wide and favorable effect throughout the country in calling attention to the work of our universities, and I am personally grateful to all the Harvard people who willingly cooperated with the many demands of television. Nathan M. Pusey
...doubt the bushman film was shown to entertain the public. Also in the category were the pretty but useless minutes spent watching Tenley Albright swish around the Watson rink. University life, however, does not revolve around bushmen and ice-skates. Omnibus came closer to the truth when it showed rehearsals of the Hasty Pudding Show and of the Eliot House Players. For a few minutes it seemed as though Master Finley of Eliot House would be able to give a real insight into the house system. In the time at his disposal he did a remarkable job. Professor Beer...
...aside from architecture and mottos, little of the real Harvard ever appeared. A few scenes from lectures, dining halls, house dances, bull sessions, football games, and Cronins would not have hurt. The Harvard atmosphere is difficult to place on a black and white screen, but Omnibus not only missed, it did not even make a good college...