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...week's second topflight show was Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m.), which definitely marked the entry of the ABC network into the TV major leagues. Created by Walt Disney, this opening show was mostly an hour-long promise of good things to come. Disneyland will be divided into four parts: 1) Frontierland, dealing with U.S. history and folklore; 2) Tomorrowland, featuring rocket trips to the moon and Mars; 3) Adventureland, assembled from Disney's outstanding nature films; and 4) Fantasyland, represented by animated cartoons of Disney's well-loved characters. Despite its fragmented character, the opening show...
Night Fight. CBS and NBC had a new set of Trendex rating figures to look at last week. On Monday night, CBS's I Love Lucy, the No. 1 show of the last three years, returned to the air. The episode was not topflight Lucille Ball but proved good enough to score 46.8 against 15.8 for NBC's Medic. The big surprise of the evening was CBS's December Bride, a run-of-the-mill situation comedy starring Spring Byington. On its first appearance, Bride won a big 31.4 rating, nearly double that...
When the U.S. Air Force won its independence in 1947, it was practically inevitable that there should be an independent Air Academy too. But so many proposals and counterproposals poured in that the Air Force began looking for a topflight general to spearhead the whole project. Last week the man who more than any other made the Air Academy possible got his just reward. When the academy opens its doors to its first 300 cadets next year, it will have as its first superintendent Lieut. General Hubert R. Harmon...
...such personages as Sweden's King Gustave, the Duchess of Kent-made "Old Drob" its sentimental favorite. The son of the grounds keeper and the checkroom attendant at Prague's old Ice Hockey and Lawn Tennis Club, he had worked his way into the fashionable world of topflight tennis through the back door, as a ballboy...
Hulking Gregor Piatigorsky, topflight cello virtuoso, would like to see younger musicians get ahead, too. But last week in San Diego, where he paused between concert tours, Cellist Piatigorsky took a swipe at an old method of helping young artists-musical competitions. Said he: "I shall never again be a contest judge. Too often they are downright absurd. Why insult and discourage 14, let us say, to honor or help one?" The last time he judged a contest. Piatigorsky said, he and his fellow judge, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, heard a singer, a flutist, a clarinetist and a composer...