The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1952-03-20
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GREAT SHAVING HAZARD

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r Attest THING on the airwaves
- is a video program which runs
two hours. A nonstop ~telecast from
z to 9 am. during the shave-shower.
Observation-Disclosures period.
It's aim is to combine news, music,
weather dope, the right time, gags.
global pictorial recordings and
what-have-you. "A sort of Aglobal
cafete-'- Of dissa and data. Dave
Garroway is the star. What he did
to bring the heavy sentence down
on his head is mystery. If he is
not a. superman he will petition the
guvnor for an early pardon.
mo. 7airwave program should run
two hours. Unless the idea is to
make 1t tougher to take than the
commercials, which seem always
to run three. Here is our verdict.
Either Garroway will have to give
up the program or we will have to
give up shavir :. bathing, dressing
and getting ready for work with the
yideo on. The human system
can't absorb so many things so
early In the day. You can have Wish
insky, Bill Douglas. Churchill, Tito.
Acheson, the Manchurian maps and
1.-THE Sugar Foot Rag" before
breakfast. We will just take buttered
toast, coffee and the usual worries.
The program called To-day" but
which with us will always be Alta
way with Garroway," has every
thing but wrestling and cooking
recipes. Garroway omits only Mar
garet Truman, Ezio Pima and Sem
ator Tobey. These omissions will be
remedied soon, no doubt. eve would
not be surprised to see the trend
wind up with a six-hour video pro-
gram in which Jimmy Durante
would give the weather forecast.
Helen Traubel deliver a message
on the state of the union, and Wish.
insky, Anthony Eden and Harry Tru.
man alternate in giving the correct
time at one-minute intervals
Novelty marches on. To-day" max
ing allowances for a noble effort,
is like a trip on a flying carpet in
your pajamas, with no time for
orange juice and with frequent stops
at a madhouse to change pilots. The
plot is by Joe Cook, the settings by
Rube Goldberg and tn. direction by
Abbott & Costello.
You get the same impression you
would get If asked to read the pa.
pers during a Winter Garden Olsen
and Johnson show or get a briefing
on global affairs in a subway rush.
When you get out Of bed with a new
Indo-C China crisis. take a shower
with telescope views Of Chicago,
Washington and Los Angeles. brush
your teeth with the United States
Weather Bureau. dress at Grand
Central and dip into your bacon and
eggs while dipping into a shipwreck
off the Azores, fresh snafu at Pan.
munjom and a couple of book re.
views, brother, you are conducting
a volunteer experiment in dizziness.
MI. Garroway, a notable success
in video, is a talented worker whose
personality combines the features Of
Peter Lind Hayes, Jules Verne,
Ed Wynn, Aladdin, Puss-In-Boots
and the Forepaugh Brothers. His
vitality on this Arogram is terrific,
He begins at/a.m. with the sun
hardly upzS when he stops you
know ~ are late for work. We
listened for four mornings. Now we
get the same effect by playing a
harmonica, doing a toe dance and
studying maps of Formosa while we
drink our coffee.
Not that Today" isn't a great
''try." But all those views of roof.
tops, commuters arriving at rail
road terminals and the Pentagon al
dawn seem less than vital to our
7-to-9 welfare. And to see all those
video people working in the studio
all snarled up in wires, gadgets.
ETC., so early makes us depressed
We just can't feel globaI before
loon. (And Vishinsky before break
fast, take him away!)
ITO SWAP: Upright player piano
and 80 rolls for a radio or a good
revolver" - Yankee Magazine.
Come, come, piano music should
never leave you that Respondent!
The Chicago OPS director says
that some meat packers have made
a million dollars Illegally by leav.
ing too much fat on cuts of pork. I,
has seemed to the average house.
wife that the cuts have been com.
ing through with nc pork on the fat
Eddie Cantor was go this year and
was wined and dined in a big way
-. Banjo Eyes greatest fear is
that he will begin to feel and look
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