Tuning In. Debating TV regulation and junk programs
Charles Mercer examines the Senate subcommittee’s critique of television content and its call for stronger FCC control local listening councils and broader codes while noting forthcoming TV film releases to Japan and plans for Front Row Center director Fletcher Markle.
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Federal Communications Commission
National Assn. of Radio and Television Broadcasters
Fletcher Markle
Front Row Center
CBS Television
Paris
Mercedes McCambridge
TV Stars Sign On NBC Chevrolet Hour Lineup
Betty Hutton returns to variety TV on NBC Chevrolet Hour with a one hour program. Bob Hope slated for eight shows. Dinah Shore for two. A joke about past scandal on TV ends with a cautionary note. ABC will air top British films Sunday nights with stars such as Alec Guinness James Mason David Niven Stewart Granger and Jeanne Simmons twice each season. MARVIN'S RADIO TV & APPLIANCES Middle town Ohio pitches Philco TV pictures and invites viewing.
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Bob Hope
Dinah Shore
Betty
Royal Oak
Michigan
FBI
ABC
Pix
Alec Guiness
James Mason
David Niven
Stewart Granger
Jean Simmons
Philco TV
Marvin's
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Middletown
Ohio
Broadcast Highlights Tonight on Radio WLW WHIO
Radio schedule details tonight at 8 pm and 8 30 pm. WLW features My Most Memorable Evenings in the Theatre with critic John Brown author Marc Connelly and Bennett Cerf. WHIO presents The Scientific Touch in a crime plot from FBI in Peace and War.
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Radio Tonight
WLW
John Brown
Marc Connelly
Bennett Cerf
Bill Smith
Harold Huber
FBI
al Field
Lewisburg
W. Va
Bob Mathias
Wednesday Evening Radio Schedule Highlights
A list of programs and time slots across stations WLW WMOH WPFB WSAI WKRC and others for Wednesday night. Features News Music Magazine True Story Frontiers Monitor and popular talk shows plus late night drama and interviews.
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WLW
WMOH
WPFB
Lenny
WSAI
Liberace
Taylor
Weber
Oxford
Wkrc Music Hall
Tenn
Ernie
Dixieland
Beatty
Chevaliers
H. J. Taylor
B. Cavalcade
Bing Crosby
Amos & Andy
Monitor
Boisseau
Little Roberts
T. McCarthy
St. Mary's
Wsal
Boiss
Bifast Club
the Bible
WKRG
Edith Hanson
Evivel
Wrre
Godfrey
WKRCO
Stork
Amburgy
Weaber
Wendy
WLW Farm
Helen Kent
Wmoh — Hall
Gar
Wkrc Townhouse
Charlie Reeder
WPF Ae Cavalcade
Ma Perkins
WKRC _Ree
Keller
Nora Drake
Eddie Cantor
WMOB
Stella Dallas
Will Lenay
Widder Brown
Wtv
Xenia Church
Church
WSATI
Pepper Young
Jazz
Television Schedule Highlights From Local Stations
At 8 p m WLW D and WLW T air Woman of Principle with Mary Fickett about a divorcee who rejects life’s compromises. 9 p m WHIO and WKRC present Tender Is The Night starring Mercedes McCambridge and co stars in a doctor romance.
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Mary Fickett
Telvision Theatre
WKRC
Mercedes McCambridge
James Daly
John Abbott
Olive Sturgess
Front Row Center
Coffin Is Back In Jail After Quebec Escape
Wilbur Coffin, sentenced to hang for the Hollidaysburg murder, was recaptured in Montreal after escaping Quebec's Bordeaux Jail. He fled using a soap-carved gun, reached his attorney Raymond Maher's home, then surrendered when urged by Maher. Coffin, a Gaspe prospector, faces Sept. 23 execution.
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Montreal
Wilbur Coffin
Bordeaux
Quebec
Coffin
Raymond Maher
Gaspe
Richard Lindsey
Hollidaysburg
Lindsey
Eugene
Albert Claar
Gaspe Bush
GI Insurance Abuses Face congressional pressure
A Defense Department inquiry cited laxity and abuses in selling insurance to service members. A House Armed Services subcommittee urged tighter regulation and warned of possible congressional action if overseas licensing remains lax. Testimony described firms with inadequate assets operating at overseas posts and servicemen buying nearly worthless policies. European command abuses were highlighted in the probe.
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Washington
Defense Department
House
Armed Services
Department
European Command
Dessert expert Marine Capt. McCutchen nets 32000 on TV show
Marine Capt Richard Sherrill McCutchen won 32000 on The $64,000 Question after naming five desserts and their origins Bombé France Zabaglione Italy Olykoek Dutch American Flummery Wales Pfeffernuss Germany He is an Naval ROTC instructor at Ohio State University Worthington Ohio with wife and three daughters Myrtle Power a 70 year old grandmother from Buford Georgia and Long Island advances to the 8000 level and may return next week for the 16000 question
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Richard Sherrill
McCutchen
CBS
Bombe
Zabaglione
Plykoek
Flummery
Pfeffernuss
St.Louis Cardinals
Myrtle Power
Buford
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Power
Worthington
Ohio
France
Italy
Wales
Germany
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Ohio State University
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