Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure of other young comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest 2.5, has doubled...
...Symphony (Sat. 6 rsop.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting a Mozart, Dvorak and Wagner program...
...vacant lot in Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
...central part of the program suffered, for the Band was off the stage, and except for a brief triumph of the Hungry Five, a small combo that combined um-pahs with lumps and grinds things were pretty spotty. The Krokodiloes did well with "You Tell Her, I Stutter,: and "How'm I Doin'" was very good, partly because of the dancing of Mildred Blacklock. She was the high spot of the choral numbers: a consistently skillful dancer who adapted herself especially well to the cramped stage. The Cliff-Riffs of Radcliffe also sang; they were not cramped by the stage...
...program of 20,000 Federally financed scholarships to private or public colleges and universities was developed by the National Education Association's Department of Higher Education last week and will be backed by American educators, Dr. Ralph McDonald, executive secretary of that organization, announced Saturday. The estimated cost of the program is 100 million dollars the first year and more thereafter...