TV comedy drought nears bedrock as Abbott & Costello fade
In a column on television comedy, the piece argues the supply of fresh routines is dwindling. Abbott & Costello are placed near the end of the line, with past material like non sequiturs and song parodies highlighted as now overused. The author worries viewers will tire of recycled bits and predicts a shift in standards.
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Television listings for Wednesday on NBC WXEL and more
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Radio and TV Listings for Cleveland and NBC affiliates
Tonight on WHBC CBSWGAR NBC WTAM and more 6:15 Hank Greenberg interview 6:30 Doc Beeman gum story 8:30 Forever Lives the Dream artist tale 9:30 Armstrong Tea garden Venuti Arden Bing Crosby Show 9:30 The Case of the Costly Mistake 10 The Big Story 10 WHK Family Theater The Golden Touch 8 a m Farm Review 11 a m March of Dimes Paul Weston orchestra 8 p m Four Star Revue Jack Carson guest Robert Alda 9 p m Television Theater Best Years Somerset Maugham Theater 9 WXEL Vessel of Wrath Somerset Maugham Theater 10 WXEL Bob Murphy Henry Brimm fight telecast 10 WEWS wrestling Joe Marsh Nichols Jules Larance Valentine 10:30 Stars Over Hollywood Adele Jergens Helen Parrish 11:15 Special Agent K 7 Tomorrow Ice Skating Sonja Henie Kate Smith Hour NBC O Connor Durante pairing Desi Arnaz new CBS radio series starting Jan 24 all from Hollywood
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Humphrey to Seek VA Medical Probe
Senator Humphrey of Minnesota calls for a Senate investigation into the Veterans Administration medical program after the firing of Dr. Paul Magnuson as chief medical director. Magnuson says he was ousted for resisting a return to prewar hospital care practices. Magnuson was replaced by Vice Admiral Joel Boone.
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Generals Promoted and Shifted by Truman Nomination
President Truman sent to the Senate a list of high level army promotions and reassignments headed by Lt. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther as chief of staff at Allied Command Europe. Nominated corps commanders include Maj. Gen. John W. Leonard Maj. Gen. John B. Coulter and Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond with Lt. Gen. Charles L. Bolte as deputy chief of staff for plans. Brig. Gen. Lawrence C. Yanes named major general and numerous brigadiers nominated to major general including Harland Hartness Hugh Hoffman John Collier Miles Riber William Bradford Claude Ferenbaugh Henry Hodes Blackshear Bryan Wayne Zimmerman Cortlandt Schuyler Lemuel Mathewson Edmund Sebree Crump Garvin and Charles Palmer.
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Orson Welles Bitten By Rabid Dog in Rome
Orson Welles, bitten by a stray dog in downtown Rome, received three anti rabies injections but will continue filming Othello. Police shot the dog after it nipped others and was believed rabid. Welles still faces fourteen more injections, one daily, to finish treatment.
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Legion report on vets in Korea limits joining Legion
Columbus reports that soldiers who fought in Korea cannot join the American Legion until they are honorably discharged, according to the Legion's judge advocate.
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Anne Adams 35-inch yard pattern 4718 apron
Small size uses one yard 35 inch fabric with ties and pockets. One piece apron with diagram shows gift-friendly pattern 4718 in sizes small and medium. Send 25 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Department Canton Repository 243 West 17th St New York 11 NY with name address zone size and style number.
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Former Ohio State athlete dies in 50 foot fall
Howard Wedebrook, 36, a former Ohio State University halfback and punter from Portsmouth, was killed in Newark yesterday after falling 50 feet from a smokestack at the Newark water works filtration plant. He had played under coach Francis Schmidt in 1936 37 and 39 and worked for H R Heinicke Co of Indianapolis tearing down the stack.
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