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...Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, a pair of fast-moving young TV producers, panel shows are "intellectual sporting events." They have drama, says Goodson, because each one "has an unwritten ending-until they're on the air, no one knows who will win, the panel or the contestant." Panel shows succeed on TV, adds Todman, because "they have motion without movement...
Goodson & Todman reached these esoteric conclusions when their first TV panel show-What's My Line?-became an unexpected hit (TIME, Sept. 17). They have applied them with equal success to their second panel show, It's News to Me.* Last week they launched the third in their series, The Name's the Same (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Like most of the others, it has a panel of experts: Comic Abe Burrows, Actress Joan Alexander, Musician Meredith Willson. It also has a funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals...
...rounding the bend below. Signals blinked, tracks switched, water tower bubbled, and Limited pulled up to station. Little cart wheels out. On other track, 19th Century Limited whips by. Forgets to stop for log loader which spills logs onto track. Old 19th backs up. Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th onto another track. The 20th starts up. Goes at full gallup toward Old 19th. Tension is high. Control man pushes button and 20th takes first right turn, missing Old 19th by inches. Crowd breathes sigh of relief. Gamins boo, suddenly spot...
...portraits, the photographers can catch as much as the easel men do nowadays, and Steichen groups four of them together in a single panel to show the camera's range: Sweden's Gustav V ("the simple dignity of a democratic king"), Jersey City's Hague ("the arrogant power of a mayor"), Britain's Attlee ("the bewilderment of a politician"), and U.S. Technologist Vannevar Bush ("the serenity of a distinguished scientist...
...highlight of the Institute was a public panel discussion entitled "Five Foreign Policies for the United States." Craig Wylie '30, secretary of the Massachusetts Branch of the U.W.F., urged the U.S. to abandon its "sound, intelligent, but uninspiring" foreign policy and work for the creation of a World Federal Government. John B. Rae, associate professor of History at M.I.T. and member of the Atlantic Union Committee, countered with a plan for a federation of the democracies...