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on ABC-TV. One of these is Buck
Rogers" which is to be Saturday
night at 7 feature starting April
Is. The interplanetary adven-
turer's exploits several centuries
hence are to be televised live" in
the New York studios. Another,
THE Golden Game" is the latest
devised by Phillips H. Lord, whose
Black Robe" is already a consid-
cradle success. An audience-par-
ticipation show designed to stimu-
late interest in the Bible, it will
bow on Palm Sunday, April g. at
$50 pm. A three times weekly
program of gossip and news of
Times Square. its environs and its
personalities. titled art Ford on
Broadway" will make its debut on
April at 7:15 pm.
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Two air favorites will be visiting
town in the near future. The first
of these will be television's Fred
Waring. who brings his orchestra
and singers to Constitution Hall
Thursday night at $50. The
Waring concert, sponsored by Pat
Hayes, marks the groups first visit
here since 1948.
The other visitor will be radios
Henry Aldrich, who will be along
! for the cherry blossoms. The
March 80 broadcast of THE AID
rich Family will be done from
the ballroom of the Mayfiower
Hotel and the next day Ezra
Stone, who plays Henry Aldrich,
will act as master of ceremonies
at the Cherry Blossom Festival
reception and supper dance. He
also will participate in the Satur-
day april u pageant at the
Watergate.
Telenotes: Bob Hope. who has
dabbled in TV on the West Coast,
will make his first major appear
ance on Easter Sunday with an
hour r-and-a-half revue on NBC,
telecast from New York to the
network. He's reported to be get
ting $4,000 for the chore. =.
Two Ralph Edwards radio shows
This Is Your Life" and Truth
or Consequences" - have been
filmed by Fairbanks Minicam
process for telecasting in the near
future as tests of audience reac-
ton. Women in the News"
United Artists newsreel, featur-
ing Adelaide Hawley as commen-
tator. is new Friday at 7:45 pm.
feature on WMAL-TV. A ma
tional search has been launched
to find THE Howdy Doody Boy
of 1880" real-life double of MICS
"Howdy Doody." The program
was presented Friday for the 50Oth
time and the winner of the con-
test will receive 500 prizes, $50 for
himself and $50 for any charity
he names. WMAL-TV has
added Sunday at 4:30 show,
Range Riders" to put Western
fans on a seven-day week. From
tier Theater" is on Monday
through-Saturday at 6 pm.
You'd never guess who was the
first President to be televised.
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Programs and People: Jack
Benny has been voted Greatest
Radio Personality of the Last Is
Years" in radio editor poll con-
Quoted by Radio Daily, a trade
paper. =. A new program of
familiar and favorite music"
Titled ''Dreamer's Holiday" starts
today at pm. on WMAL. It will
be followed at 2 by a half hour
OF Perry Como records. Dick
Haynes and 10 Stafford have
been selected as permanent guest
stars" on the "Contented Hour"
(WTOP-Sunday, 10 PM, start
ing with tonight's broadcast. Miss
Stafford also will continue with
Club 15." Ross H. Beville,
chief engineer of WWDC, is a can
didate for the office of Mayor of
Takoma Park, Md. Mark
Sheeler. new WPIK morning man,
lis visiting Washington homes to
tape record interviews with house
wives for broadcast on his am.
show. e. Felix Grant has taken
over WWDC's all night "Yawn
Patrol" WGAY has expanded
its Music in the Air" the pro-
gram now being heard Monday
Ithrough-Friday at 7:30 am. and
Sunday at 10 am. It's something
/ of a different morning show, in
that chatter is kept at a mini
mum. . Jackson Weaver, WMAL
announcer. has been named mas
ter of ceremonies for the Cherry
Blossom Festival, April l and 2.
WASH-FM has signed a So
week contract to broadcast the
Saturday night camp meetings
sponsored by the Seventh-day
Adventists in the Washington
area. The programs will be heard
Saturday nights at $50.
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The first President to be tele-
vised was Herbert Hoover. It
was done in 1927, when he was
Secretary of Commerce, and it
was "netWork." too. It was q