Evening star., 1951-06-28
On the Air
" Ruins
IA Weather
| Prophet
By Harry Macarthur

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any minute.
On the other hand. any one
of them would start the weeks
laundry in the middle Of q tor
rental tropical storm II the
nelghborhood weather forecaster
thought it would clear up soon.
That's the way it used to be-
at any rate. The janitor would
emerge in the morning, cast an
eye at the set and color of the
clouds. sniff the air for hints Of
its origin, check the brometel
with his bones and take a humid
ity reading In his joints. He was
ready then to give the word about
the rain or shine the day held.
Then he got a television set
He has taken to watching among
other things, the reports of the
professional weather forecaSters
with their charts of warm fronts
cold fronts. occluded fronts and
stationary fronts. He listens at
tentively to their talk of circula-
.tion and temperature diversions
of air flows, moisture. dew point
and precipitation, Of cold all
masses out of Canada and warm
air masses off the Gulf of Mexico
All Of this has widened his
horizons undoubtedly and it has
taught him q host OF things he
never knew till now about the
weather. The trouble is that IL
has ruined him as the neighbor-
hood weather prophet. The charts
of those TV weather forecasters
are SO impressive that he is afraid
to contradict them and he hesti-
tates to forecast wet grass in q
rainstorm if it has come up unex-
pectedly.
His old high batting average is
going all to pieces and nothing bul
teleyision is to blame.
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Tuesdays Tots: A lot of talk is
being banded about the televisior
channels these summer Tuesday
evenings, some of it in the gar
left by Milton Berle, some of il
other places and some of it even
making sense. The vacationine
Berle has been replaced on WNBW
at 8 by Meet the Press" an ad-
Iditional edition Of the popular
Sunday program with a different
|interviewee, and at $3.50 BY
Juvenile jury"
Juvenile Jury" is the televisior
version Of the radio program o1
the same name and has a pane,
of small-fry experts solving prob
lens posed by small-fry viewers
Some Of these answers are down
right hilarious. The only draw
back to the affair is that it seems
only slightly more impromptu ano
unrehearsed than the Calvert
street bridge.
Another Tuesday night new
conner is another TV version of 9
radio program, The Georgetown
University Forum" This is seer
at 8 pm. on WTTG and consists
of learned and often provocative
discussion of affairs of the day
1t should prove to be worth you1
while.
Still another Tuesday night
session, which LOOKS like q sum.
mer replacement even if 1t has
been on for several weeks now
is "Q.E.D.," on WMAL-TV at 8
This has a panel Of experts
(this week it was Nina Foch
Robert Sylvester and Richard
Himber) who are given little prob
lens to solve with pure logic
Sample: A lawyer and a doctor
were walking down the street
when a car careened around a
corner and crashed into a pole
The lawyer said Goodness gra-
cious. that's my wife" and the
doctor shot him. Answer: The
doctor was a jealous woman.
If "Q.ED." was designed to
give even the slowest-witted tele-
viewer comfortable feeling Of
superiority, it ought to serve it's
purpose. You never saw three
people tumble more wildly than
this panel while thrashing about
in evasion Of the obvious.
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Faithful Fan: Pick Temple
(WTOP-TV 3 Monday-th
Friday, 6 p.m) has received the
ultimate proof of viewer devotion
from the mother of boy less for
tunate than most young teleview-
ers. MY son wears glasses" she
wrote. "and is allowed only 80
minutes a day for TV. He wouldn't I
think OF missing your programs. -
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Sports Department: Jack Row.
zie will move to WBCC Monday to
conduct his Sports Page" from
] to 5 pm. daily. This will be
especially welcome news for those
who follow with fascination the
only ball club nobody but Mr..
Rowzie ever mentions--the st.
Louis BwownieS.
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Programs and People: Connie
Russell, bright spot on Dave Gar
roway's shows, will substitute for
Janet Blair during July in the
Chicago company of South Pa
cif1c." =. Meet Corliss Archer
is coming to television, starting
July IL at 9 pm. on CHS (WTOP-
TV) =. The sponsor has signed
to renew NBC-Tv's Sunday night
Comedy Hour next season
Baritone Donald Richards viii be-
come Thursday night star on
broadway Open House." starting