NBC Overhauls Monday Night Lineup With Old Shows
NBC reshuffles Monday primes by dumping old movies for Art Linkletter in a repainted People Are Funny format with borrowed cues from Candid Camera. The choice hinges on ratings of the films and Linkletter, who has long built audience participation. the piece notes Paar, Cullen, Downes and Collyer as contemporaries, and suggests a linkage among Linkletter Paar and Levant for a hypothetical People Are Peculiar show.
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Hollywood
NBC
Art Linkletter
Linkletter
Art
Bobby Darin
Bobby
Cullens
Cullen
Charlie
Jack Paar
Bobby Sarnoff
Paar
Yehudi Menuhin
Oscar Levant
Oscar
Levant
Radio and TV Highlights Tonight Schedule
WPFB AM Middletown faces Hamilton Garfield at 8. WPFB FM Fenwick meets Lakota at 8. WKRC broadcasts Royals versus St. Louis. TV Channel 2 presents International Showtime from Tokyo at 7:30. Channel 7 and 9 offer Rawhide at 7:30 and 7:40. Channel 2 features Winston Churchill WWII updates. Channel 2 and 12 discuss a gang leader's death on 77 Sunset Strip at 9:30. Channel 9 presents Hitchcock about a honeymoon murder at 9:30. Channel 5 hosts George Burns and Pearl Bailey on the Jack Paar Show at 10.
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Wpfb-Am
Middies
Hamilton Garfield
Wpfb-Fm
Fenwick
Lakota
Wkrc — Royals
St. Louis
Winston Churchill
Sunset Strip
George Burns
Pearl Bailey
Jack Paar
Transmitter Penetrates Astronauts Blackout During Reentry
General Dynamics Astronautics announced a radio transmitter capable of sending signals through the blackout curtain that blocks voices during atmospheric re entry. It has operated on more than a dozen missile flights from Cape Canaveral, Florida without a failure. The 3,000 degree heat from air friction creates the blocking layer.
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San Diego
Calif
General Dynamics Astronautics
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Champion Spark Plug signs U.S. Canada Brazil contract
VW appoints Champion Spark Plug Co to supply spark plugs for all Volkswagen cars in the United States, Canada, and Brazil. The Cincinnati area firm will handle nationwide coverage for the automaker across North and South America.
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Toledo, Ohio
Volkswagen
United States
Canada
Brazil
Champion Spark Plug Co
Sheinwold on Bridge and the Pussycat Lesson
Bridge veteran Sheinwold reflects on a thirty year career and a famous hand. West’s supposed pussycat lead vs the dirty dog East shapes the outcome as South must navigate remaining trumps to make the contract. The tale centers on odds, card play, and a keen read of opponents’ holdings.
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West
South
East
Cateh
Declarer
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Marvel
Wa UU
Hi Filtereo Records
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Navie Master Torch
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Goodyear
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Charles ST
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