Film Groups Announce Merger and Television Union
Hollywood reports a quiet yet historic merger as the Association of Motion Picture Producers and the Alliance of Television Film Producers unite to form the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The move marks television’s official integration into the film industry and signals a shift from old studio power structures. Traffic tests on an experimental aluminum bridge in Sykesville, Maryland, will intermittently halt road movement as the State Roads Commission conducts part-time testing followed by two weeks of full-scale evaluation starting April 27.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Association of Motion Picture Producers
The
Alliance of Television Film Producers
Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers
Will Hays
Columbia
Walt Disney
Sykesville, Md
State Roads Commission
TV viewership rises as Nielsen cites 51 million homes
New York AP reports Nielsen research shows television ownership at about 51.3 million U.S. homes, 92 percent of households, with Northeast strongest and the South lightest. Average daily viewing ranges from about six hours in winter to four in summer, and The Beverly Hillbillies is named best comedy by the American Legion Auxiliary.
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Nielsen
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Nielsen Company
American Legion Auxiliary
Ben, Casey
ABC
Lew Ayres
Diamond play and rubber strategy in bridge
A rubber bridge analysis discusses leading the ace and king diamonds and the defensive pause by West. It explains how careful play can force five diamonds to win game and rubber, comparing normal defense to a cautious plan from dummy.
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West
South
North
Welfare official resigns over philosophical differences in West Virginia
Charles F. McDermott, comptroller of the West Virginia Welfare Department, resigned Tuesday citing philosophical differences with welfare director W. Bernard Smith after a 30 day suspension ordered March 10.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Welfare Department
W. Bernard Smith
Charles F. McDermott
Department
Eagle dies in Berlin named for mayor
AP reports the American eagle Willy Brandt, gifted to West Berlin by U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1962 and named after Berlin's mayor for the nickname Eagle of Bertin, died of old age. The item appears in The News Frederick edition dated April 15, 1904, noting a welfare official's reference to an internal disciplinary matter.
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Berlin
Willy
Brandt
West Berlin
U.S
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Bertin
Television Schedule Snapshot 1950s Scatter
A partial TV guide lists programs with times and channel groups. Entries include Best of Groucho News and Three Stooges, Omnibus and CBS Reports, Virginian and Gallant Men, Ozzie and Harriet, country movie titles Flirtation Walk and Country ie, McCoys, Concentration, Jeopardy, Romper Room, Pete and Gladys, Missing Links and Mike Douglas among others.
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Texan
CBS Reports
Virginian
Pete and
Gladys
Mike Douglas
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