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Age Doesn 't Dim Stars 9 Luster TUESDAY TV iAUi By CYNTHIA LOWRY Hollywood (rP) When television was very young some 15 years ago the film, radio and stage performers tentatively sticking a toe in the medium seemed almost as overwhelmed by its personnel as by mfh IS its fantastic promise. The whole thing is run by babies," a famous radio star reported breathlessly after her first scary plunge. "I swear to you that the producer looked about 15 and the director even younger. I never saw the writers, but I decided they sent their stuff in from nursery school." Things have changed over the intervening years, and some of those beardless boys are now beginning to part their thinning locks farther and farther on the side. But most fascinating development in the area of chronology is the foothold achieved by mature performers whose shows, year in and year out, attract the largest numbers of viewers.

Youth really is bested by age in TV. Jack Benny, for one, has recently changed networks in his 32d year of broadcasting and continues to perform in a weekly comedy show, pops up all over the networks as a guest star and celebrated recently his 70th birthday. WALTER BRENNAN, who this season has a new comedy series. The Tycoon, (9 p. m.

Tuesday, Channel 34) and has been a popular TV favorite for many seasons before that in The Real McCoys, also recently passed his 70th birthday. Gladys Cooper, the distinguished and beautiful British actress who is playing the family matriarch in The Rogues, (10 p.m., Sundays, Channel 40) is 73, takes long walks for exercise and recently drove her car alone from New York to California. George Burns, producer of one comedy series and producer-star of a second this season, can not be far from the 60 mark, if he has not already passed it. Show business people, as a group, are not likely to run around publicizing their ages. In fact, it is almost routine to find in a studio-issued biography of a star, even of a youngster like Patty Duke, that the fortune-favored one first saw light on June 15.

The year is, almost invariably, missing. A FEW, however, admit to the passing of time a dan- Morning 7:00 SO) Today Show 52 Wagoner. RFD 7:25 12 Early Morning News 7:30 40) Today Show 52 Cartoon Carnival 7:45 12 King and Odi 8:00 32 Captain Kangaroo 8:30 40) Today Show 9:00 40) Fun Time 52 Exercise with Gloria 9:30 J2 STETA 10:00 4fj Maka Room for Daddy 10:25 AO) Morning Newt 10:30 40j Word For Word 32 tov Lucy 54 Prica It Right 10:55 6 Morning Newt 1 1 :00 40) Concentration (32 Andy of Mayberry 54 Get The Message 1 1 :30 40 Jeopardy 32 Tha Real McCoys JJ4) Missing Links Afternoon 12:00 0j Say When 52 Love of Life 54 Father Knows Best 12:25 12 CBS News 12:30 Truth or Consequence 52 Search for Tomorrow 54 Tennessee Ernie Ford 12:45 42 Guiding Light 12:55 40 NBC News 1 :00 60j Adventure 12 Ralph Carroll 54 Romper Room 1:20 12 Op" House 1 :30 46 Let's Maka a Deal 52 At the World Turns 1 :55 40j News 2:00 0 Loretta Young 52 Password 43 STETA 2:30 40 The Doctors 52 House Party (34) Day in Court 2:55 54 News 3:00 46 Another World (12) To Tell the Truth 54 General Hospital 3:25 12 News Extra 3:30 40 You Don't Say ffi) Edo of Night KATE AND THE UMQUAW Bea Benaderet as Kate Bradley tangles with Benny Rubin as Chief Fleet Eagle of the Umquaw Indians on Petticoat Junction over CBS Tuesday (9:30 p. Channel 12). I NSSSL 'Si- m1 VH.

'h deret of Petticoat Junction (9:30 p. Tuesdays, Channel 12) has grown children and Shirl Conway of The Doctors and The Nurses is rarely challenged on her age by 1 1-watchers on Election Day. Other thoroughly employed and highly popular television stars who are undisguisedly mature include Ray Walston, star of My Favorite Martian, Dean Jagger of Mr. Nov.ik, Raymond Massey of Dr. Kil-dare, Charles Boycr and David Niven, of The Rogues, Lee J.

Cobb of The Virginian, Fred MacMurray of My Three Sons, Ozzie Nelson and spouse of Ozzie and Harriet, Lome Greene of Bor.inza, and even the great Gleason himself, who has a married daughter. Probably television's oldest star of all, if you count the years the way veterinarians do, is Lassie. That marvelous collie has been saving people and situations for 20 years, which would make her, on the human age calendar, 140. TV TUBES 70 OFF NEW 1-YEAR UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE GENERAL SURPLUS SALES 10 ALICE ST. BINGHAMTON, N.

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RA 3-5202 ELECTRONICS SERVICE Quality Goes In Before Name Goes gerous move, however, for Hollywood wise-acres invariably add at least five years. On the record one finds that E. G. Marshall of The Defenders (10 p.m. Thursday, Channel 12) is 54.

So is the apparently age-proof Robert Cummings who continues to play merry young bachelors, even this year in My Living Doll (9 p. Sundays, Channel 12). Lawrence Welk is a proud grandfather, which detracts nothing from his fascination as far as his loyal feminine fans are concerned. Buddy Ebsen, the star of Beverly Hillbillies, was a featured dancer in the 1928 Broadway musical, "Whoopee," so he's no kid. Paul Ford, star of this season's new comedy.

Bailey's of Balboa, (9:30 p. Thursday, Channel 12) admits to 63: he didn't even start acting until he was 38. And John McGiver of Many Happy Returns (9:30 p. Mondays, Channel 12) us 53, and a New York school teacher until he was well over 40. Ed Sullivan has seen 60 go by.

So have two indomitable, indefatigable favorites, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. ON THE DISTAFF SIDE, age also has proved no barrier to television popularity. Shirley Booth of Hazel, (9:30 p. Thursdays, Channel 40) is hardly a starlet and neither is Lucille Ball, who admits reluctantly, naturally to post-50 birthdays. Bea Bena QsmihaL SALES BLACK-WHITE rtM TV 34) Young Marrieds i 4:00 40 The Match Gam 52 Secret Storm 54 Trailmaster 4:25 4f Nows 4:30 46 Mr.

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