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3Bflllll ll-f -1 Eye Surgery Near for Leyden ryiie I Ytr-J. siT -1. t.h-i&ii. 1 if By Hank Grant (Exctutivt Dispatch to The Iowa TV Maazlnt) HOLLYWOOD, CAL Bill Leyden, host-star of "Your First Impression," wants to assure his viewers that he is not going blind. Two years ago Leyden was wounded in a hunting accident.

As he relates it: "It was the pheasant season and I felt I should stop hunting because there were too many hunters around for comfort Sure enough, some nut banged in my direction and I was full of shot, and one pellet got embedded in my left eye." Soon sick rumors began to circulate. Some said Leyden might lose an eye, another said he would lose both his eyes and there was even a story that one of his eyes had already been replaced by an artificial one. The stories' eventually pearlng on his snow with a patch over his eye. "The reason for my wearing this patch is a happy one," said Leyden. "Until now, that shotgun pellet has been embedded in my eye too deeply for anything but a risk operation.

Now It has come close enough to surface for a safe operation and I'm being prepared for it with treatment that makes the eye sensitive to light. And that is the reason the only reason for the patch. "Incidentally, it isn't a black patch. I have sev-eral different colors to match whichever suit I'm wearing. It's not vanity on my part, it's to put the studio audience at its ease when I kid about it before we go on the air.

"Within a month I'll be going into surgery for removal of the pellet. At the very worst, that eye will be slightly nearsighted; my other eye is perfect." Socialized Medicine Is Program Subject Htm Vrk Tkm Ntwi ttrvka NEW YORK Y. A study and assessment of socialized i i in Britain will be televised early next year in the NBC "White Paper" series. A camera crew is now in Great Britain concluding filming of the British system in action. Chet Huntley will narrate.

GREER ARSON studies the script for "Shadowed Affair," to be seen on TV tonight It is her first television appearance in 18 months. Lured From Dallas By 'Instant Theater By Cynthia Lowry NEW YORK, N. Y. HV-Motion picture stars, particularly established ones with proven box-office appeal, are likely to be luke-warm -about acting in television. But Greer Garson is an exception: she thinks TV.

is wonderful for herself, at any rate. BILL LEYDEN A patch to match died down, only to be revived a few weeks ago when Leyden started ap- MERLE HAY PLAZA YOUNKER' v- "Satisfaction Ahvays" DOWNTOWN SEAL OUT WATER WHILE YOU PAINT YOUR BASEMENT SEALER PAINT Reflections on TV Hoss-Laugh On Cowboy By Ogden Dwight IT1RADE journals, which call this the "no-mischief season," are saying the TV western is about as hot a commodity as the buttonhook, or soon will be. Early trend spotters (early trend spotters' gravestones are fairly common) think that the t-v year entertainment "cycle" may have wheeled around to comedy, and offer in evidence the OcL 7 Nielsen ratings' first report, conceded to be "too early to tell much, really." Premature or no, on Oct. 7 (before many new series had a chance to establish any kind of following or foothold), the Nielsen champs were: 1, Lucille Ball; 2, Andy Griffith; 3, Danny Thomas; 4, Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza and the Sunday World Series game (three tied); 7, Red Skelton; 8, CBS "Opening Night" variety-preview; 9,. Hazel; 10,.

Jack Benny. Last March, Nielsen ranked in order Wagon 'Train, Bonanza, Hazel, Gunsmoke, Dr. Kildare, Andy Grif-fith, Red Skelton, Danny Thomas and Ben Casey. TESTED GAGS Note the repeaters. A cycle? Comedy is ever-popular.

Also note the newcomers. Miss Ball's loyal disciples seem quite willing to forgive terrible, unfunny scripts because of her keen clowning savvy and her invariable reliance on a single prop like a football whistle or a live sheep. The "Beverly Hillbillies" revive a tested comedy formula that has not changed in centuries of farce. Examples are Iowa's "Toby and Susie" team, Neil and Caroline Schaffner, who have given up their traveling tent, but whose humor will live as long as humanity. In this same general field of funny-business are "Car 54" and the new "I'm Dickens He's Fenster," both series likely to show up in later, truer polls.

Jack Benny's presence is no surprise, nor will be Bob Hope's after each of his hours. BIG DEAL Next year, watch for Danny Kaye in popularity summit meetings. He's signed a long-term contract in a CBS series budgeted, the trade says, at $160,000 a week, the total deal to reach, some guess, $5 million the first year. He'll click if his writers can provide material that fits his special talents, and good enough (or not too poor) to invite permanence. It will not be easy.

For the writers, that is, not Kaye himself. "For one who leads a busy, demanding life in other areas, it is great," she said. "It's a tremendous challenge to any ac-. tor because it combines the techniques of, stage and screen. And it is all concentrated in two, three or four weeks of work." Miss Garsoa recently speat three busy weeks in New York rehearsing and perforating in the taped "Shadowed Affair," which NBC will broadcast tonight "Motion pictures months to make," said.

"A play, if it success, ties up a former for months, take she is a years. Television, on the other hand, is 'instant theater' everything else seems to be 'instant' these hectic days so television is in the contemporary mood. I like being an instant actress." Miss Garson today finds her acting career has fallen somewhat behind her preoccupation with the jobs of matron, volunteer worker for causes, painter and archaeologist and very importantTexas and New Mexico booster. The wife of E. E.

(Buddy) Fogelson, an Independent oil man. Miss Carson's home base Is now Dallas, where she works for just about all the most worthy welfare and cultural causes of he community. The Fogelson ranch is in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, and there they spend summers and weekends. Miss Garson rides horseback there, carrying with her tools to do a little digging for an-cent Indian and Spanish artifacts which abound in the area. SATURDAY Benny Sets 30th Benefit Concert HOLLYWOD.

CAL. Jack Benny will be guest violin soloist with the 75-piece Beverly Hills (Cal.) Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Weis-kopf, on Jan. 19. Proceeds will go toward the benefit and maintenance of the orchestra. The concert will be Benny's thirtieth to aid charities and symphony orchestras throughout the nation.

In 29 previous concerts, Benny has helped raise for the cause of good music and for orchestra pension and continuance funds. Although he has appeared with symphonies in both the United States and Canada, this will be Benny's first concert performance in his adopted home town. Sonotone now has the smallest hearing aid In the world. It's the "WIgp-Ear" and It's worn In the ear. Small aa a dime In diameter, light aa a nickel.

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