Television year in review highlights Nixon Kennedy debates
The year’s TV milestones center on Nixon and Kennedy joint appearances and debates that reshaped political broadcasting. News and public affairs dominated the networks, with one hour formats rising, while entertainment remained uneven though featuring Gun Smoke Perry Mason and My Three Sons among others.
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Hennesey
The
Untouchables
Perry Como
Garry Moore
Dinah Shere
Broadway 1960 A Year Ended In Glitz And Turmoil
William Glover surveys Broadway in 1960 noting 55 shows opening, 21 surviving, and a year of blackouts and strikes. Behan and Tammy Grimes rise, Fiorello! dominates play prizes, Lions of the season include Elizabeth Seal, Anne Bancroft, Tom Bosley, and Lylah Tiffany.
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Glitter Canyon
Elizabeth Seal
Tammy Grimes
Anne Bancroft
Tom Bosley
Fiorello
Lylah Tiffany
Best Sellers List Feature From Last Week’s Picks
The inventory highlights top titles including ADVISE AND CONSENT by Drury and TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD, See, along with THE DEAN'S WATCH by Goudge and THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by Shirer. Other noted works include BORN FREE by Adamson and THE AMERICAN HERITAGE PICTURE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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Mockingbird
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George Raft Started As A Tango Dancer
Hollywood profile notes George Raft rose to fame after dancing the tango in Dancers In The Dark at Paramount. He later played suave gangsters in Scarface and earned millions in the next decade. Jerry Lewis will spoof Raft in The Ladies Man with a tango sequence.
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Record Wishes for 1961 From the Music World
The piece lists hoped for gifts to stars and innovators in the record industry for 1961. Perry Como Elvis Presley Eileen Farrell Maria Callas Mitch Miller Antal Dorati Arthur Fiedler Lerner Loewe Meredith Willson Hank Williams Enoch Light Judy Garland Richard Rodgers The Kingston Trio The Lennon Sisters and recording reviewers receive imagined, playful requests and tributes from a nostalgic music column.
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Metropolitan Opera
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Louis Armstrong
Rudolf Bing
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Mitch Miller
Antal Dorati
Arthur Fiedler
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Loewe
Meridith Willson
New York
Broadcast Highlights Tonight on Radio and TV
Radio and TV listings show 8 PM to 10:30 PM programs across WPFB WKRC WLW WHIO WCPO and WLW. Highlights include Royals vs St Louis 3 WLW-T opera Deseret with Judith Raskin and John Alexander, Omnibus Lincoln Center preview, Meet the Press with Gen. Elwood Quesada, Twentieth Century prisoner of war report, Kim radio drama, Sullivan show guests, Four in One musical hour, Churchill documentary The Will to Victory, Candid Camera with Frank Fontaine, and new talent showcases on Music for a New Year’s Night.
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Kenneth Smith
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WKRC
WHO
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Dick Haymes
Fran Jeffries
Sam Levenson
George Jessel
Earl Grant
Tammy Grimes
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George Gobel
Peggy Lee
Percy Faith
Frankie Avalon
WCPO
Sir Winston Churchill
WHIO
Frank Fontaine
Boston
WLW
Collector's Items Showoff Cars in Splendor in the Grass
Hollywood notes reveal Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass at Warner Bros with a $100,000 collection of 1920s autos. The lineup includes a 1928 Duesenberg Phæton a 1928 Rolls Royce Town Car a Locomobile a Pierce-Arrow and multiple Ford and Chevrolet models from 1925 to 1928.
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Elia Kazan
Warner Bros
Mitzi Gaynor Finds Joy in Work After Hollywood Setbacks
Mitzi Gaynor credits hard work and self discipline for her happiness after miscasts at Fox and a Marilyn Monroe film. She recalls being fired as a blessing and later headlining South Pacific, a Fox blockbuster. She keeps a cheerful Beverly Hills home with husband Jack Bean and maintains that dancers must train and persevere to shine.
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San Quentin
Actress Carol Lynley Weds Michael Sessman in Mexico
In Acapulco light ceremony by a Newhall justice of the peace, actress Carol Lynley 19 marries 20th Century Fox publicist Michael Sessman 25. The couple will honeymoon after Lynley finishes her film Return to Peyton Place next month. Betty Lou Keim and Warren Berlinger attended the wedding.
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Los Angeles
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Warren Berlinger
Sessman
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Leslie Caron shifts from gamin roles to stage Odine in Paris
Leslie Caron wraps up Fanny for Warner Bros in Paris and immediately begins rehearsals for a new stage version of Ondine in which she again plays a gamin.
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Paris
Efrem Zimbalist Jr May Become Screen Heartthrob
Hollywood reports Efrem Zimbalist Jr may become a leading heartthrob with By Love Possessed where he plays a small town lawyer entangled in an extramarital affair with Lana Turner. The film features an all star cast including Lana Turner George Hamilton Jason Robards Jr Barbara Bel Geddes Susan Kohner and Thomas Mitchell. Zimbalist also discusses continuing his TV role as Stu Bailey in 77 Sunset Strip and praises Warner studio chief Jack L Warner while noting cast changes in the studio’s lineup.
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Lana Turner
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George Hamilton
Yul Brynner
Lana
Hamilton
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Barbara Bel Geddes
Susan Kohner
Thomas Mitchell
Stu Bailey
77 Sunset Strip
Nolan to produce new film with Liz Taylor star
Nolan restarts Transworld Productions to back a new picture starring himself opposite Liz Taylor. The project, a box office favorite, could push Miss Taylor to her fourth consecutive Oscar nod, while Laurence Harvey is overshadowed in the role.
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Efrem Zirbalist Jr Plans Book on Pipe Craft Secrets
Efrem Zirbalist Jr, noted figure in Kollywood, announces a forthcoming book detailing the do's and don'ts of refined pipe usage, promising insights from a veteran pipe aficionado.
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