Local TV Listings Mix Programs and Crime Plot Details
A cluttered TV schedule from Pittsburgh and nearby cities shows channels, times, and programs in a snapshot of mid century listings. Amid cartoons, dramas, and game shows references to a crime syndicate plot involving actors Gla Robert Ryan and Robert Black appear in a film note, alongside varied news, weather and late night entertainment listings.
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Nawa
Bootia
Wanther
P.M
Cronkite
Bea
S.k—Hentley
Brinkley
iiBea Hunt
McCays
Huckleberry Hound
Telate Tsuth—Pats
Gladye
SieMovig
Linke
House of Bamboo
Japan
Uca
Mps
Gla
Robert Ryan
Robert Black
Broadway Theatres Strike Likely Ended By Negotiated Deal
New York AP reports a tentative agreement between Actors Equity Association and the League of New York Theaters could end the Broadway strike. Wagner notes bodies must approve terms, which follow union demands for higher pay and rehearsal increases, affecting about 700 actors and 4000 workers.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Actors Equity Association
League of New York Theaters
Wagner
Carol Channing
Richard Burton
Dylan
Alec Guinness
Joseph Cates
Sammy
Cates
Chicago
Detroit
Equity
League
TV-Radio News Highlights From Weekend Airs
A weekend of television featured CBS Reports on Eisenhower's D Day visit to Normandy recalling the 1944 invasion with Cronkite guiding questions. ABC covered Tony Lema winning the Thunderbird Golf Tourney with a final putt and NBC aired a moving look at Lita Levine’s Nantucket plane crash ordeal and medical journey. Defenders on CBS tied current headlines to civil rights era debates, delivering sharp legal drama.
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CBS
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Normandy
Hitler
Europe
ABC
Tony Lema
Mike Souchak
NBC
Nantucket
Gen. Eisenhower
Walter Cronkite
English Channel
Cronkite
Tha Twwadtan
Lita Levine
Baker seeks funds to save Milandes chateau amid debt
In Perigueux France AP Josephine Baker faces eviction from her 12th century Milandes estate as creditors threaten sale of the chateau and furnishings. Donors including Brigitte Bardot answer appeals, aiming to raise about 400000 dollars to keep the property and her 11 adopted children from displacement.
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Perigueux
France
Josephine Baker
Milandes
Miss Baker
Mirandes
Brigitte Bardot
Miss Bardot
TV Tonight highlights varied classic programs and films
A dense schedule lists Outer Band Induated Tele tracter specials, House of Bamboo with Robert Ryan and others, Lucy Show golf scene, Wagon Train episode The Kate Crawley Story, Danny Thomas in Ireland, Holly Wood and the Stars Monsters We Have Known, Andy Griffith Show parking ticket fiasco, East Side West Side urban renewal tale, Mitch Sing Along letters, and Breaking Points Dont Cry Baby Dont Cry based on a Minnesota prison adoption experiment.
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Weather
Ernie Ford
Bparts
Danny Thomas
U—Troth
Consequences
Andy Griffith
Sigc Merewood
Morgen
Mika Douglas
Mitohn
Dr. Kildare
Brody
Kildare
Lew Ayrea
Ann
Loncheon
Osee
Oumney
Calif
Pratt Brian
Scott Brady
James Cagney
Bette Davis
Sonny
Marzias
Som Son Power Iscat
Pat O'Briend
Mickey Mouse Club
Pentoo
Katgares
Woody Woodpeaser
Minnesota
Leftist group calls for professor dismissal in Indonesia
In Jakarta a leftist student organization demanded the dismissal of a university professor who invited U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones to lecture. The protest underscores tensions over foreign influence in higher education and political speech.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Jhas
U.S
Howard P. Jones
Miss Baker’s Milandes tourism plan hits mortgage hurdle
Miss Baker aims to develop Milandes as a tourist attraction to fund her family’s income and retirement from the stage. The chateau and grounds, including hotel facilities, are heavily mortgaged as tourist traffic failed to meet expectations. She vows to seek a new approach and leverage about 500 acres of fertile land for profitable development if immediate problems are solved.
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Japan
Africa
South America
Finland
Miss Baker
Milandes
Hollywood Wrecking Ball Destroys NBC Sunset Studios
Hollywood demolition crews raze the NBC radio studios at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street after 25 years. The pea green building housed stars and legends from Bing Crosby to Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Al Jolson, and Meredith Willson, marking the end of an era as NBC moves to new facilities in Burbank.
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Hollywood
Wrecking Ball
NBC Radio
Sunset Blvd
Vine St
Bing Crosby
John Scott Trotter
Fanny Brice
Baby Snooks
Red Skelton
al Jolson
Jolson
Edgar Bergen
Ozzie and
Harriet Nelson
Injphone
Phil Harris
Alice
Faye
Oscar Levant
Jack
Wilson
Studio D
Willson
Ralph Morgan
Hel
Franklin D. Roosevelt
V-E
W.T Davis
NBC
Burbank
Jazz Pianist Meade Lewig Dies In Auto Crash
Jazz pianist Meade Lux Lewig died in a suburban highway crash after finishing a nightclub engagement in Minneapolis. Passenger Jimmy Dobbins, 19, was fatally injured. Ronald Bates, 24, was seriously hurt. Lewig, 68, born in Louisville, renowned for Honky Tonk Train Blues, struck a tree after the collision.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Meade (Lux) Lewig
Jimmy Dobbins
Lewis
Los Angeles
John Hammon
Chicago
Louisville
Jimmy Anthony
Dobbins
Ronald Bates
Kennedy Uncertain on Democratic Vice Presidential Bid
Milwaukee AP report says Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy has not decided on running for vice president and has not chosen a Senate bid in New York. He denied a survey is being done to gauge his chances against Senator Kenneth Keating. Signs greeted him at the airport and a full Milwaukee Arena heard his remarks during Marquette University commencement.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
Tno
Kenneth Keating
Wisconsin
Bob Kennedy
Marquette University
Marquette
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Weether
Greater
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Mathae AM
Botharn
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Cynthia Lowry
AP Television
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Belle Howell
St, Anne
Indiana News Co, United Cigar Store
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James Bond
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Manoa Theatre
McNaughton Bros
Stancera
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Luther Ford Sales, Inc
Homer City, PA
Robert Stack
Shirley Yamaguchi
Lucy
Gary Morton
Wagon Train
Barbara Stanwyck
John McIntire
Kate Crawley
British Isles
Kathy
Danny
Dublin
Joseph Cotten
Barney
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West Side
George C. Scott
Chen
Mitch
Blairs Ville
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Hollywood News
Bob Thomas
Gazette
Cuff Robertson
Galveston
Jeffrey Hunter
Foster
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At Simmons
Robert Preston
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Fall Heeyey
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Jackie S Gleason
McQueen
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