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...week's end CBS pre-empted Omnibus' hour and a half to present Out of Darkness. Filmed in cooperation with the American Psychiatric Association and the National Association for Mental Health, Darkness was designed to show the public what can now be done to cure mental ill ness, and as a full-scale attack on the national apathy that allots no more than an average of $2.80 a day for the care, housing and medical treatment of the 750,000 patients in U.S. mental hospitals...
...yesterday's Omnibus survey of university education and "Harvard in particular," announcer Alistair Cooke thanked President Pusey for allowing Harvard to be turned "upside down" for the sake of the television production. The apology was in order--what covered the screen for ninety minutes was not only an inverted picture of Harvard, but a small and thus distorted view. The camera never focussed on a lecture, or classroom, and the few students and professors who did manage to appear were either outnumbered by deans and politicians or drowned out by announcers and alumni...
...then the corrected versions had to be mimeographed. Also, the directors and producers still had to watch the Pudding show rehearsal at 5:30 and the Glee Club at 6:50. But both of these were relatively relaxing for all concerned. Their only purpose was to give the Omnibus staff some idea of what type of material each group had available for the air. The actual choice was to be made later...
Mary took her job philosophically. She has probably spent more time on this show than any other single person, having started it the day after another one of her shows--the last in the series on the Constitution--appeared on Omnibus. She knew something would come out on Sunday, even though normally the professionals in New York "take a week of rehearsals to put on a show." The panic would all be over by Sunday, she felt sure. But, as she puts it, "To make the program look spontaneous, we have to get all the bugs...
Buried alive enroute to the St. Patrick's Day Parade a week ago, the Band was plowed up again this morning by a mobile unit from Omnibus, working in close liaison with Mayor Edward J. Sullivan's bank-baiting Finest...