Broadcast Highlights and Staged Programs for Tonight
Radio schedule lists 8 pm baseball St Louis at Cincinnati on WHIO WKRC WMOH WPFB. WLW airs The Cali fornians at 7 00 and baseball again 6 30. Yancy Derringer at 8 pm repeats. Wally and Beaver imitate Tom Sawyer at 9 pm. A gunman past haunts a reformed killer at 9 pm. Celebrities on Jack Paar at 1 18. Chapultepec battle noted as pivotal Mexican War moment.
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WHIO
WKRC
WMOH
WPFB
St. Louis
Cincinnati
WLW
WCPO
Broderick Crawford
Andrew Johnson
WKRCE
John Kerr
Barbara Bel Geddes
England
Jack Paar
Georg Jessel
Edward Everett Yorton
Betty Johnson
Charles Dornan
NBC Starts Sunday Showcase With Original Drama
NBC launches Sunday Showcase on September 20 offering an ambitious drama lineup led by executive producer Robert Alan Aurthur. The slate includes People Kill People Sometimes and a What Makes Sammy Run adaptation with plans for works by Schulberg Bestor Osborne and Aurthur. Despite creative freedom, the program remains unsponsored as advertisers fear unknown drama content.
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NBC
Ed Sullivan
Maverick
Robert Alan Aurthur
Fred Coe
Aurthur
S. Lee Pogostin
Budd Schulberg
Sammy
Patrick Dennis
Billie Burke warns touring shows may vanish from land
Hollywood veteran Billie Burke predicts big time theater will fade outside New York as costs rise and venues age. She laments few new generations will know live stage, praises memories of performers like Miss Barry, and notes her own return to acting with Solid Gold Cadillac.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Billie Burke
New York
Miss Burke
Red Eye Rocket Aimed at Ground Defense
Army researchers plan a hand fired ground to air rocket to shield foot soldiers from strafing aircraft. Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau disclosed at an Aberdeen Proving Ground news conference that the Red Eye operates like the Sidewinder, locking on to heat and effective to about one mile.
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Aberdeen
Army
Arthur G. Trudeau
Army Proving Ground
Trudeau
Spacemen Agree To Share Profits For Space Flight
Seven prospective spacemen in Indianapolis form a plan to share equally profits from the first safe return space flight. They will fund widows and orphans from first-person accounts and insurance gaps, promoting solidarity among the crew. Captain Virgil Grissom of Mitchell, Indiana, voices support.
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Indianapolis
America
Indianapolis Star
Virgil Grissom
Mitchell, Ind
Polio cases in Ohio rise sharply in 1959 week
Nine new polio cases were reported in Ohio last week raising the year to date total to 52. The count is far ahead of 17 at the same point in 1958 and officials say there is no marked concern. The Ohio Department of Health issued the update.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Department of Health
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