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CO lot fHOWCOULO HE PIECES 1 I 1 'jr44 T7K)tr Jg' GLASS feSAND HEW ftSwUloF BUT HE CAME BACK A -t-wICOKEN I i Tw down: he's COT toZ IJI fF Wif ,8 14 News Around the Dials 5 Tonight PM in color. Overmyer TV Net Sold By MATT MESSINA The Overmyer Network, scheduled to begin operations next month as the fourth nationwide commercial TV network (with WPIX-TV serving as the local outlet), has channel 7 loewe's a new ownership Industrialist Daniel H. Over 0 0 ft An original TV adapfafion of the Broadway musical Martin Masy Oliver Trey i Starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falkand Sally Ann Howes. Presented by Armstrong. Get the LP cast album of the show.

One dollar at your local Armstrong flooring retailer or lumber dealer. A limited edition, not 'available at record stores. myer, who announced creation of the network last July, has sold his assets for stock in a new corporation, called the United Network Co. The board chairman i3 Jack V. McGlothlin, an Abilene, Texas, oil man.

Oliver Treyz, who was president of the Overmyer TV network, will be president of United Network. He said all previous programming commitments, including arrangements for nightly shows from Las Vegas, a deal with the Continental Football League and pickups of UPI news telecasts, still were on the fire. No Figures The financial aspects were not revealed. Treyz said: "These are substantial people investing substantial sums which will implement fully the network as to pre-operational expenses and working capital requirements." Willard V. Garvey, Wichita, oil man and wheat grower, will be the chairman of the executive committee.

He said "Our studies revealed a need for a curth TV network by the public, the broadcasting industry and li advertisers. We believe the network service concept, as developed by Oliver Treyz, is not tnly sound but exciting and challenging." Others Involved Other members of the leadership include: George F. Thagard, California oil man; Texas businessmen Bob G. Bailey and James W. Nichols; Rush K.

Evans, president of a TV station in Colorado Springs; Dwain Schmidt, Wichita attorney, and Lew Marcy, who will be executive vice president of United Network. He held a similar post in the Overmyer setup. There are 125 independent sta- Suggested resal price. tions affiliated with the network, including WGN in Chicago. Musical selections from four nominated stage hits will be performed by members of their cast3 during ABC's telecast of the Tony Awards presentations Sunday, March 26, at 9:30 P.M.

The per formers are: Mary Martin and Robert Preston, stars of "I Do, I Do," who are to host the telecast; Joel Grey Barbara Harris and Larry Blyden Apple and Norman Wisdom Mayor Lindsay may soon be known as His Honor of Radio Land. He came on WNYC last night at 9 unexpectedly and without a script in what he promised would be a Sunday night weekly series of 15-minute informal talks. In his opener he plugged safe driving and anti-horn blowing, among other items. Claudia McNeil and Arthur O'Connell join Fredric March and Florence Eldridge in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," the Loring Mandel drama due on CBS Playhouse next fall. Another property, "Dear Friends," by Reginald Rose will be taped in May.

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