Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Potent Group. A Harvard Phi Beta Kappa ('32) and onetime ABC vice president for public affairs, sad-faced Bob Saudek was running the Ford Foundation's TV-Radio Workshop when he developed the idea for Omnibus. Getting the program under way with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike...
...Hugh Downs was program director at Lima's WLOK, moved on to WWJ in Detroit as an announcer before going into the Army in World War II. (He collapsed after a four-week basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio...
Piped Down. In Dearborn, Mich., arrested for punching a cabby in the nose and smashing his car radio, Francis McKenna told the judge: "The driver refused to tune in on a program commemorating our Scotch Poet Robert Burns...
...long ago, Andover sent 75% of its boys to Harvard, Yale and Princeton; last year it squeezed in only 43%, and sent the rest to 44 other colleges across the land. Yet Andover offers its brightest students a wider range of college-equivalent courses under the Advanced Placement program...
...whose strike-deferred projects are expected to boost capital spending 50% to 60% over last year. Republic Steel, for example, plans record spending of more than $155 million on new strip and plate mills and expansion of a plastic coating line for pipe. Said Treasurer W. B. Boyer: "Our program is being undertaken not so much to raise capacity as it is to increase efficiency...