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8 TIIE SUNDAY PRESS Binghamton, N. Nov. 24, 1957 1H ONiqER -Best of Today' He's Hoping They AW Watch9 As Show Finally Goes On I i k'X. I 1 si s. rn I I 1 Vf v.

1 1 By JERRY HANDTE VIEWERS had a hard choice to make at 10 p. m. Thursday, but they saw a good show whether they picked Channel 40's "The Innocent Years" or stayed with "The Troublemakers" on Channel 12. We put one of our best operatives on the WINR-TV documentary, being involved In the Playhouse 00 drama which began a half -hour earlier, and he came back with a report that the 60-minute program was wholly enchanting. Old newsreels and feature movies were tied together with an excellent commentary by Henry Solomon and a superb selection of period music, edited and arranged by Robert Russell Bennett.

Theodore Roosevelt was the dominant individual of the show, which covered the years 1900 to 1917, our man said. The program was part of NBC's Project 20 series, which appears to be a to the CBS Twentieth Century series carried by WNBF-TV Sunday evenings. NBC, it seems to us, goes In more for mood and nostalgic atmosphere in its documentaries than CBS does, while CBS bears down on technological developments. "The Troublemakers' must have given moments of agonising reappraisal to fond parents who are giving up luxuries to build up college nest eggs for their young. Some of the most prlmitlyjEjypes CTfr wtrhulitB tim-art theoretical seat of hgher learnng were assembled for ths hard-hitting Playhouse 90 drama over WNBF-TV.

In the dorm was the "different" boy, rather slssifled by comparison with the others and earnestly Idealistic about the life which Is pounded out of him by four fellow students. The play thereafter focussed on Ben Gazzara as a GI Bill pre-law student with a petit larceny record, a roommate of the victim. Ben had tried Ineffectually to stop the beating and then was afraid to report Its consequences. Mr. Gazzara eventually did go to the police, after falling In love with the victim's sister.

He had to defend himself from his roommate's fate with a baseball bat and was forgiven for his long silence by the murder victim's mother and sister. Mary Astor as the mother and Barbara Rush as the sister performed ably. Our impression of the play, after It was all over, was that It had been an effective morality play about good and evil and what Is expected of a man, but that its collegiate setting was far-fetched. Then we recalled reading of campus hazing deaths, and we weren't so sure. LESS emotionally wearing, but also exciting, was Climax! on Channel 12 Thursday night.

It began with that well-worn fictional situation: a man regaining his senses in a room with a corpse and realizing, with blood on his clothes, that he Is a prime murder suspect. This one Involved a San Francisco millionheiress whose fiance killed the blackmailer who repaired her motorboat after she was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in the harbor. Ralph Meeker played the part of a man on a drunk after losing his job who met the blackmailer and was suckered into Emm tww Jt 1 5 4Y-. 1 a. vi'iflwnii RHONDA FLEMING i 4 4 use- SHEREE NORTH tors was another watch company.

Immediately after the Sinatra show Hope's sponsor cancelled its TV contract with him becausu it figured he'd i LONE RANGER William O. Parmer, one of the first Texas Rangers now cattle ranching In Arizona, surveys the set In Tucson where he will appear at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon on Channel 40's Wide Wide World. "Miracle In the Desert" will present the past and present of America's booming Southwest. 7 I been working for a competitive watch company. This left NBC-TV holding a bag temporarily.

Several sponsors, quite aware of Hope's high audience ratings, were interested especially an auto manufacturer who was willing to pick up the contract for his filmed show scheduled on NBC-TV Nov. 7. Then somebody realized that the show would fall directly between programs sponsored by two other auto manufacturers a violation of a network ruling that competing sponsors cannot follow one another. So the Nov. 7 show was canceled and the previously pre-empted programs "Dragnet" and "The People's Choice were reinstated in the time spot The nearest time that could be found in which to place the Hope show was today.

To make this slot available the times of "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour" and "Sally" were pre-empted. Every TV contract contains the provision uiai snow can pe pre-empted twice a year on adequate notice: The cast of Hope's show Includes Sheree North, Rhon'da Fleming, Francis X. Bushman and Danny Thomas. During the Christmas season, by the way, Hope will tour military Installations in the Pacific making the film for his January television program. iVURTB Adopts Former Name Washington Members of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters voted overwhelmingly last week to revert to the organization's former name, tfle National Association of Broadcasters, effective Jan.

1. The business association of the broadcasting industry was organized in 1922 as the National Association of Broadcasters. This remained the name until 1951 when the name was changed to National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters following a merger with the Television Broadcasters Association. i Qitiorrcvv on 1 plot 1 1 th -I Betsy Palmer was very good as the loyal wife who helped get him out of the mess, with By CnARLES MERCER Associated Writer New York Bob Hope return! to NBC-TV tonight at 7 o'clock after a brief delay caused by the peculiarly sensitive nature of television sponsors. Persons In the Industry say that l'af-faire Hope scarcely caused the lifting of a brow; they claim that they struggle with bigger problems every day.

But to viewers the situation may serve as an A MX.HOFI example of why TV execu tives are often late for dinner though not exactly a reason why some have ulcers. The difficulties began last month when Hope appeared on the Initial ABC-TV re rular -program of his rood friend-Frank Sinatra. Hope's NBC sponsor was a watch company. one of Sinatra's ABC spon- OPEN A. M.

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Hinfcle each weeknight Roundup Time PHI 1r'. CI 3 i movie palace and a boat repair receipt. Scenes in which the fugitive couple, wanted for murder, hid in the movie theatre, seemed like a blanket TV indictment of all moviegoers, suggesting that only a leather jacketed masher or a bubble gum snapper would leave the living room screen for the cinema- Meet the Press, the NBC dean of news interviews programs broadcast by Channel 40 at 6 p. m. Sundays, has been named the best adult TV program by the Ohio Education Association.

We were glad to be told of this, as old admirers of Meet the Press from way back In the radio days. Panel members, paced by the relentless and not particularly ingratiating Lawrence Splvak, blast away at their famed guests In a spirited and productive attempt to dig out the factors underlying the news. Mr. Splvak himself ranks close to Martin Agronsky as the man we'd least like to be interviewed by. Both have a nasty edge to their tongue when Interviewees take evasive action.

PfJof Hl-rf Mo. I030D You Component Qualify Console Convenience I 1' LOVELY VICTIM Harry Gnardino shows his wooing technique on one of the women (Karin Booth) he victimizes In "The Last Request" on Alfred Hitchcock Presents at 9:30 o'clock on Channel 12. fftt -Jr 3 She Defeated Reds' tiraimvashing i ries Ti BETSY PALMER -9 MARY ASTOR Quiz Winner At Another Neiv Plateau Gallon, OhIo-flJfJThe Marine captain who came through the battle of the isolation booth with $64,000 has moved on to a new plateau. Richard S. lucCuiexien has turned in his dogtags, become a civilian and gone to work as a salesman.

While a marine, McCutchen became something of a national hero two years ago when his knowledge of cooking won him the first $64,000 quiz jackpot in broadcasting historyTTIis mental exertions in the isolation booth tantalized millions of television viewers and whetted many an appetite. -LIFE CHANGED Life has changed since then for the 30-year-old ex-marine. On Sept 23, McCutchen started work at Gallon, Ohio, as a trainee in sales and advertising for a steel body company. The firm makes hydraulic equipment and dump bodies. Enthusiastic about his job, McCutchen says the offer he received from company vice- president Herbert T.

Cobey was too good to turn down for it presented a challenging opportunity in a field that interested him. McCutchen said his success on television played no part in his decision to leave the marines. When he began appearing on the celebrated quiz show Aug. 16, 1955, he was a naval ROTC instructor at Ohio State University in Columbus. Ee recalled that his appearances on the show, which culminated in his triumph on Sept.

13, did little to chanse his life. DECISION TO LEAVE The decision to leave the service was made last August and McCutchen said he did all he could to avoid publicity at the time. "The services," he said, "are quite concerned about the number of personnel leaving because of more attractive offers from private industry. I don't want to add to their The Marine Corps has been very good to me." King, Skulnik lit Series for TV New York (J5) Dennis King and Menasha Skulnik have agreed to co-star in a television comedy series titled ''Howe Hummel," to be. filmed by Screen Gems, Inc.

The series is based on the lives of two New York lawyers, William F. Howe and Abe Hummel, who worked from a storefront Manhattan office from 1869 to the early 1900s. "Cobalt bomb" cancer treatment has been Installed at the Cancer Institute in Madras, India. i i the aid of a gruesome all night "guilty" by the court. She was again returned to solitary confinement.

During aH of the seven years In prison, she never knew the court's decision on the actual length of her sentence. Last October she was freed after the brief Hungarian uprising, and only then learned that the Com- "muntsts had originally sentenced-f her to 15 years In prison. Dr. Bone says she rediscovered herself as a person during her internment, and that her deeply-suppressed doubts about communism came to the surface. While in prison, she ingeniously maintained her sanity by building an abacus, an ancient counting board for doing arithmetic; she made it out of stale bread and broom straws, and used it to recount her vocabulary in each of the six languages she speaks.

She also created poems, and painstakingly constructed a braid from the strands of towels. She used the strong braid to pull a nail from the wall, bored a hole in the door with the nail and thus acquired a peep-hole through which she could look out. Other former prisoners of the Communists who will be seen on the program are Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis who spent two years in a Czechoslovak prison, charged with espionage: Englishman Robert Ford who spent five years in a Chinese Communist jail, and three U. S. Air Force men who were shot down in Korea, captured by the Chinese Communists and charged with germ warfare.

In. mm CLEAN, NOW Five Air Force veterans, charged with germ warfare during the Korean conflict, will be featured on "Brainwashing" on Channel 12's Twentieth Century at 6 o'clock tonight. Here they are at their first post-fighting reunion before the CBS show rehearsals started. Special to The Sunday Prest New York How does a former Communist feel about having spent seven years in solitary confinement in a Communist prison? Dr. Edith Bone, 68-year-old Hungarian-born British subject, one of the key figures in "Brainwashing." Chapter Six of "The scries on Channel 12 at 6 o'clock tonight, feels her imprisonment was, strangely enough, an enriching one and a kind of penance for having, as she puts it, "served an evil cause for 30 years." Dr.

Bone, widow and an M. left Hungary, her birthplace, in 1919 to visit Russia. While there she joined the Communist Party. With the advent of the Admiral Worthy regime in Hungary, Dr. Bone could not return home.

Sbe lived in various other European countries until 1933 when she went to England and became a British subject. In 1949, Dr. Bone returned to Communist Hungary for a visit. She spent five months there, translating some English works into Hungarian and writing a few articles for the London Daily Worker. As she was about to board a plane.

to return to London, she was arrested and charged with being a British spy. For the next seven years, Dr. Bone languished in solitary confinement. For the first 14 months she was under constant interrogation by her Communist captors, but refused to confess to anything. Soon thereafter, she was given a summary trial -no jury merely a reading of the charges and a decision of 4: THE Offers and Speaker High Fidelity Home Music System In or Othtr Pilot Modeli From 1165.50 In Mahogany functional with lid.

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