Evening star., 1951-03-13
On the Air
Viewer Sees
Boys Bouts
las Fixed
By Harry Macarthur

Recent events in the basketball
world seem to have made complete
Skeptics of some people. One of
them gave WTOP-TV a bad time
the other evening and in an area
where it never expected trouble.
1t wasn't a crackpot call. a type
of menace to the days work easily
recognized in a newspaper office
or radio station. This man had
serious complaint.
He'd been watching In This
Corner which As to rs pound
boxers wearing head guards and
pillow size gloves are matched by
the Metropolitan Police Boys
Clubs every Tuesday at 6 on
WTOP-TV. Something under
handed, WTOP-TV's caller said.
was going on here. He'd been
counting the blows struck. he said,
and it was obvious that the actual
winners of the pint-size bouts were
losing decisions.
The only conclusion, he main
tanned, was that these fights were
fixed. A WTOP staffer was both
Mortified at the thought and un-
successful as he tried to explain
that there'd be little point in that
and that the Police Boys CLUBS
wouldn't be party to such doings.
The call was turned over to Lieut..
Forrest Binswanger, who guides
Police Boys Club activities, and he
turned out to be no more con-
vincing.
The fights aren't fixed, but
there's one man in Washington
who has convinced himself they
are.
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History Lesson: A project of
such proportions that it staggers
them to think about it now is in
the laps of several Washington
members of the NBC-TV staff.
The ultimate result of it will be
television history of the United
States Navy, from shortly before
World War II to the present day.
1t is still in the planning stages
and won't reach the country's TV
screens before the latter part of
1851. Before it does, thousands of
feet of film. starting with the
Shelling of the U. S. S. Panay in
1887 and continuing through the
present United Nations actions,
will have to be screened and
edited.
The original announcement of
the Navy history was made Sun
day on Battle Report, Washing
ton" by Undersecretary of the
Navy Dan A. Kimball. Navy and
NBC technicians, he said, "are
preparing to screen literally hun
dreds of thousands of feet of Of
fetal Navy film, to pick out the
very best for presentation to the
American public. Much of this
film for security reasons has never
SSAOAC bCCIl CAIlIDlGSQ.
The announcement from New
York calls the project "the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.'S first
major effort to establish a
pioneering pattern for presenting
history by television." A COM
mendable-type effort, and as a
starter the pioneers involved might
have a look at Crusade in Eu-
rope" which March of Time made
for ABC-TV.
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"a Day at the School,: Two
half-hour programs, Children in
Shadow" will be presented by
WMAL-TV, the first tomorrow
night at and the second next
Wednesday. Their aim is to ac-
quaint viewers with the work done
by the D. c. Society for Crippled
Children in the rehabilitation of
children suffering from cerebral
palsy. AS nearly as possible each
program will simulate day at the
school with the children.
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Programs and People: Jack
Carson will headline -Four Star
Revue" tomorrow night (WNBW
-8 p.mD, with assistance, Of
course. from Lola Albright. The
comedian also has a role coming
up-a "serio-comic" one-in No
Shoes" next Monday night at g.
on "Video Theater" (WTOP-TV) =.
mo Shoes" first was done on a
Dallas TV station by an amateur
cast, but was included in William
I. Kaufman's collection of best
television plays. Something in
the manner of Pirandello's Six
Characters in Search of an
Author" seems to be set for to-
morrow night on "Television
Theater" (WNBW-9 p.m). The
play. "On Stage" is about a writer
who submits play to "TVI
Theater," then falls asleep and
dreams the players are using their
own lines instead of the ones he
wrote. . An Easter Parade pre-
view is scheduled for next Sum
days Your Junior Revue"
(WNBW-noonD. The models will
be younger members of the diplo-
matte set.
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Radio Notes: Three local WTOP
programs joined network shows in
the recent Pulse listing of most
popular programs in WASHINGTON.
Eddie Gallaher's "Moondial Mat
lnee" topped all Saturday and
Sunday daytime programs; Claude
Mahoney's 7:30 am. news was
seventh among daytime f1ve-a-