Evening star., 1952-01-11
On the Air:
Man Offers
Home Cures
For TV Ills
By Harry Macarthur


John P. Kenneally may not
know it but he is the author of
the most timely book ever to cross
a television editors desk. This TV
editors. at any rate. Mr.. Ken
neatly is an electronios engineer
and supervisor of radar training
|at the Pan American pilot training
school in New York. His literary
work, designed for newsstand sale.
lis a small paper-bound volume
titled "Telefixit," setting forth
home cures for TV set ailments.
The copy of this tome which
came here couldn't have gone to
IA better place. The TV set has
come down again with its periodic
ailment electronic arthritis, or
something. There is no point in
calling a service man. Almost any
one with television set knows
the futllfty OF that.
Your TV receiver can display
all sorts of vagaries for you alone,
but the science of electronics is a
mysterious one. There is some
thing about dialing the repair
mans telephone number which
puts a TV sets circuits in order.
While he's in the room, every
one knows, the television set sits
up and wriggles like puppy, SO
eager to please you could take an
ak to it. Let him depart and the
galloping ghosts convene. the pic
ture wavers and cat fight takes
place within the box.
It might be that there IS an
electronic explanation. Maybe the
starters on all service mems auto
mobiles broadcast on Channel Z.
It's more likely. though, that man
has just made the machines too
smart. They're going to take over
some day and before they do
they're going to hound us all into
nervous breakdowns.
Television sets know full well
what they're doing and they do
it on purpose.
This, of course, is what makes
Mr.. Kenneally's book so welcome.
1t will make you your own service
man and no television set will
act up when you're in the room.
And if the set which has been
the TV editors companion for so
long insists on more drastic
action. we'll be in a position to
tell you about the merits of Mr..
Kenneally's suggested cures for
TV troubles. That GALS tube had
better look out.
Week End Guests:
Tomorrow-Peggy Ann Garner ;,
Nancy Carroll and Frank Albert
son, on THE Ken Murray Show
(WTOP-TV-8 p.m). Spike
Jones and the City Slickers. plus
Billy Eckstine and Hugh Herbert,
on "All-Star Revue" (WNBW-
8 pmJ. -. Dorothy Kristen, on
Faye Emerson's wonderful
Town" (WTOP-TV-9 PM. i.
John Kodiak, as guest host, on
''Your Show of Shows" -(WNBW-
8 pm). :. Peggy Lee and Cab
Galloway. on Songs For Sale"
.(WTOP-TV-10 p.m.3.
Sunday The Francis High
School choral group. on Your
Junior Revue" (WNBW-noon),
{. DR.. William F. Russell of
Columbia University. discussing
THE Future of American Educa-
tion," on Horizons" (WMAL-TV
Il p.m) Senators Karl
Mundt and Joseph C. O'Mahoney,
on American Forum of the Air"
WNBW-2:30 p.m.0. . Governor
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, on
Quiz Kids" (WTOP-TV-3 p.m).
Beatrice Straight and Tom
Helmore. in Love Story" on
Sarah Churchill's "Television
Theater" (WNBW-3::30 p.m.).
Boris Karloff and Jimmy Savo, in
Don Quixote," launching the
Columbia Television Workship"
(WTOP-TV-4 PM. Leon
Keyserling, on Meet the Press"
(WNBW-4 p.m). Connie
Russell. on Paul Whiteman Re-
vue" (WMAL-TV-7 p.m). .
Paul Hartman and Gene Krupa,
on Stage Entrance" (WTTG-7
p.m0. Kay Thompson, Sarah
Vaughan and Jack E. Leonard, on
This Is Show Business" (WTOP-
TV-7:30 p.m). F.. . Rhonda Flem-
ing. Enrol Flynn and Bruce Cabot,
with Abbott and Costello on "The
Comedy Hour" (WNBW-8 p.m.).
Rudy Vallee. Harry Richman,
Hal Leroy, Peggy Lee and Smith
and Dale, in tribute to George
White. the scandals" man, on
Toast of the Town" tWTOP-TV
'-8 PM. E. G. Marshall and
Murvyn Wye, in Without Fear or
Fervor," story of the New York
Times fight against the Tweed
Ring, on "Television Playhouse
(WNBW-9 p.mJ. Bobby
Clark, on "The Arthur Murray
Party" (WMAL-TV-9 p.m.),
Mindy Carson and Bert Wheeler
on Celebrity Time" (WTOP-TV
10 p.m0. :. Sylvia Sidney and
Douglas Montgomery, in "The
Gathering Twilight" on Cameo
Theater" (WNBW-10:30 pm).
Monday - Veronica Lake, in
RE taliation." on HOLLYWOOD
Screen Test" (WMAL-TV-7:30
PM. -. Maria Riva and Edmond