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FOCUS 20 TOOl Sunbag Jpurnai anb Lincoln, Neb. 5 Ouidt. 6F, 7F. WEEK --------------J Of September 20 NEBRASKAIond'i COMPLETE TV Rodio, Pogt IP Hits of Go? By CYNTHIA UtWRY, AP Network television has officially started its new season and with all the carefully planted rumors about surprising hits, it is interesting to look back a year at the supposed-to-be hits of only 12 months ago There was. first, which ABC fondly believed wvtiild restore tihe old fashioned, big-raoney quiz show to its former glory.

It was first disaster of the season, slipping away after a couple of dreary' perforniances to be replaced by for whieh didn't last much longer. Tlien there was that limped along, dodging fire, until it was replaced with Was the Week That CBS tasted its share of ashes, too. witli It to the Other programs would have earlier had not the network contracted for a minimum number of shows ABC's Jaimie and the P'die Caesar series of short And then, of cour.se. there was the flashiest failure of the season, Garland S1 The season lies ahead, and the cxpc'rts are nnseen in many the various new entries as though the t- work schedules were horse races. One expert, an advertising agency program analyst writing in the trade magazine points out that in many cases it is not how good a show is blit where it is located that its success or failure.

The analyst, James H. Cornell, predicts, for still another year. TV two top programs will be and The only new show that he expects to climb into the Nielsen top- 10 show rating is Williams which just happens to follow and the top-rated Van Dyke on Wediisday nights. Cornel also expects that only about one out of three of the new shows will be counted a par for a normal season. lluskers on Live and Filmed The Nebraska-Minnesota football game at I Minneapolis next Saturday will be seen live on I the NRC-TV network at 1 p.m.

I Hu.sker fans can also see movies todav of i the Nebraska-South Dakota game i Movies of each Saturday's games will be I seen several times during the week, including 1 at a.m. Sundays on KMTV of Omaha, I on KOLN-KGIN of Lincoln and Grand Island 1 immediately following professional games I Sunday afternoons, on KNOP of North Platte 1 at 9 p.m. Sundays, and at 9 p.m Tuesday on I KIJON of Lincoln. I Over Nebraska radio stations carry live accounts of all Husker games. Bi'oadoast Honors To Taylor Grand Tlie Nebraska Broadca.stcrs Association convenes here today for it.s annual convention The program of speeches and panel di.scussions will be spiced by appearances of movie-TV star Robert Taylor and author Bob Considine.

Selection of the Broadcaster of the and the of the will be announced during the invention. Taylor, a native Nebraskan, will receive a lifetime membership in Uie state association in recognition of his many contributions to the development of the broadcast indu.stry. He will be honored at a ceremony this evening Among industry personages on the program are: Armstrong, a di- Taylor Ncbraska-boro rector of the National Association of Broadcasters. rederiek W. Ford, member of the Federal Com- munlcation.s Commi.ssion.

('oiirfc, vice president of public relations of the National Association of Broadca.sters President of the NBA is A. James Kbel, vice president and general manager of television stations in Lincoln and KGIN IN Grand Island NBA membership includes nearly all of the television and radio stations. Sjiontior Shriigs at Critidsiii of U.N. TV Series Compiled From News Wires An impressive array of talent has assembled for the first of six so-called that will dramatize the work of the United Nations during the new' television season. The 90-niinute specials are being developed by Telsun Foundation a tax-free non-profit organization chartered for the televi.sion project.

Telsun, it turns out, Is receiving far more co-operation than It probably expected. in contrast to a John Bireh Society attempt to suppress the series. Producers. performers, writers, directors and others are donating their time and talent for union minimums to help out in the production of the specials. Xerox Corp.

is putting up the $4 million actual production and for network lime the six specials. The Bireh Society made its move by proposing a mass letter-writing campaign to the sfKuisor. Xerox acknowledged a out- of-the-sky abundance of condemning its plans for the series. The Bireh campaign was brought to light July 31 by the San Franci.seo Chronicle in a new reiHirt. that time Xerox reported it had received about letters in a two-week ('allrcl For A call for a of 50,000 to 100,000 letters of w'as made in the July issue of the John Birch Society Bulletin.

John Rousselot, Birch official, said in Los Angelei' the puri)ose of the letter campaign was and society members were specifically instructed not to threaten a boycott of Xerox products, the Chronicle The firm makes duplicating machine and other mechanical products. tm. Serling ikripter hate to see a corporation of this country promote the IhN. when we know it Is an instrument of the Soviet Communist the Chronicle quoted Rousselot, national director of public information for the society. John Guttenberg, a Xerox executive, said his firm welcomes pul)lic reaction to its television programs, but he added: seems premature, however, to judge programs before they are GiilteiiNTg was quoted by the hronlcic as saying Xerox not in the business of propagandizing for the r.N.

but neither is it the business of censoring programs because they are coii- trover.sial.” The programs will he shown on ABC and NBC during the year. Fir.st up will be Carol for described by Telsun publicists as original modern fantasy based loosely on (that) dramatizes through the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future the need for all men to become involved in today's C.liri.Htiiiasi Airing tentatively set for showing in Christmas week by ABC. Starring in Carol for Another will be Gotifroy Cambridge, Peter Fonda, Richard Harris, Sterling Hayden, CTiristophor Plummer. Kva Marie Saint, Peter Sellers and James Shigeta. The writer is Rod Serlliig, winner of six Kmmy awards for television scripts.

Joseph Mankiewicz, who has won five movie Oscar awards, ill be the producer- director, marking his first television venture. Henry Mancini will compose an original musical score for the 90-minute production. The six specials are expected to be on the air on a monthly basis. Some of the producers and directors assigned to future projects include George Sidney, Al- frcKl Hitchcock, Terrence Sam Spiegel and Fred Zinnemann. CD oo How to Pay Bills and Have Cash Left Over paychecks last longer when you organize consoli- uf' ADO UP YOUR BILLS to see how nu.d.

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