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Evening star., 1953-03-17
HOLLYWOOD.

A recent critical blast at the
censorship imposed on TV comics
has caused no end of debate in
video trade circles here.
Dick Powell (not the actor) .
president of TeleviSion Writers OF
America and a writer for several
TV comedy shows, got the ball
rolling when he accused sponsors
and their agencies of adding so
many don't to their list that
it's becoming almost impossible
for comedian to be funny.
It's Powell's contention that
comics are being killed not by
TVS terrific pace but because
they are running out of things at
which they can throw satire or
poke fun.
"There are too many sacred
cows" he says. IF viii Rogers
were alive today he would go
back to rope twirling."
A lot Of TVS funnymen and
their writer's may agree with
Powell on this, but one notable
exception is a bulge-eyed show
business veteran by the name Of
Eddie Cantor.
I'VE have as much freedom to-
day as we ever had," Cantor de-
clares.s s'Isdon't blame the spon-
sor for imposing certain rules.
He's got something to sell, and
he's not going to ALLEVIATE po-
tential customers.
While rehearsing for his NBC
radio show recently, Cantor was
told he would have to toss out a
recording of AL Jolson's "Rocka-
bye Your Baby With a Dixie
Melody" The line Nanny
mine" might offend a certain
segment of the viewers, the
sponsor contended.
If a comic can't take this kind
of censorship today, he doesn't
belong on TV, argues Cantor.
The bug-eyed comedian also
cites "Lucy's" discovery that she
was goinng to have a baby as an
example of freedom on the air
which couldn't have happened a
few years ago.
"What about the thousands of
Jokes leveled at Harry Truman
and his whole family?" Cantor
asks. "Is this a sign of censor
ship?"
\ 4 \ y
On his own TV show. Cantor
| frequently includes a CT skit
played by Hal March and Tom
D'Andrea. The banter between
these two buck privates gets
pretty sharp and biting when II
comes to Army food, officers. etc
! Nobody, including the Army
Evening star., 1953-03-17
Comics Walls on Freedom.
Get No Cantor Sympathy
By HoI Humphrey

/ has ever told me to cut 1t out,
Cantor claims.
Will Rogers didn't escape some
censorship, even in his day, Can
tor recalls. During Warren G.
Harding's term, Rogers was tell
ing a joke which implied there
was graft in high places. Hard
ing instructed his Attorney Cen
eral, Harry Dougherty, to have
Rogers drop the joke from his
repertoire.
Rogers replaced the joke by
saying, II had a line here about
the administration but the
President doesn't like it, so I'll
save it for the next President.
I'm sure the Democrats have a
better sense of humor."
Cantor does agree with Powell
on one point. And that Is that
sponsors and networks are too
ready to give in to small but
vociferous pressure groups. But
he's wrong when he states that
censorship Is making 1t impos-
Sible for comedians to find,
enough material" Cantor main
tains.
IF censorship was as bad as
all that. a lot Of comics would
have had to furnish their own
houses" jibes Cantor. referring
to all the free plugs some of
them work into their scripts and
the loot they collect for such
mentions.
"a great many of my contem-
poraries worry about what they
can get away with. Well. I
don't want to get away with it,
I want to stay with it," says the
philosophic Cantor.
(Released nv Mirror Enterprisesl
Evening star., 1953-03-17
'Dienified Easter
Shows Are Set
Nv e Huf&orfiaId
By c. E. ButterfieId
NEW YORK


Television, which got its fin
gers cracked after last years
Easter fashion parade along New
York's Fifth Avenue, has prom
ised to do different when it goes
back on the famous street next
April S.
This time, it's said therell be
none of the accommodation
which critics and others COM
planned about in 1852. Neither
will there be any street spec
tacleS bordering on the maudlin.
Advances notices about net
work plans indicate interviews
will be conducted mostly of the
street at a close-by hotel or from
an overlooking roof garden.
Street pickups will be in keeping
with the occasion. The pictures
are to go coast to coast.
NBC says its share of the occa-
sion will be a 'dignified hour
program of spring fashions and
family celebration" In the words
of Charles Barry. program vice
president. the telecast will be
made under controlled condi-
tions. which will preclude the
er-commercialization injected
in previous Eastern parade tele-
casts by publicity seekers"
NBC has picked a Rockefeller
Center position on the roof
garden of the Palazzo d'Italia
opposite st. Patrick's Cathedral,
around which much of the
streets Easter activity centers.
This will enable the cameras to
look down on the fashion pa
raiders and at the same time use
the roof garden to conduct in
terviews and display fashions.
ABC classed its setup as "blue
ribbon coverage presented
with punctilious regard for the
solemnity and religious dignity
Of the holiday" It plans to use
mobile equipment at 50th st. op-
posite the cathedral for the
street scenes. with other parts of
the program from a hotel a few
blocks up the street. ABC also
is arranging a camera visit to
the Washington paraderS.
CHS. apparently desiring to
forget some Of the barbs directed
its way last year. said there
would be a definite ''toning down
of any carnival atmosphere. It.
too. win have q street pickup op-
posite the cathedral. The CHS
interviewers will come from the
same hotel ABC Is to use.
Evening star., 1953-03-17
HiehIiehts
Rodio Todoy.

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SO: Mrs. David Delman is guest.
$500, WRC-Cavalcade o +
America: Robert Cummings stars
in "River Finds a Master"
$500, WRC - Martin-Lewis
Show: Gloria Swanson visits.
Evening star., 1953-03-17


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Evening star., 1953-12-20
Squads Starts Workouts
For Miami Shrine Game
ay the Assocloted Pres.

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 10. - Head
coaches of both the North and
South wore satisfied smiles to-
night after a first look at the ma
terial assembled for the Shrine'S
annual collegiate all-star football
game Christmas night in the
Orange bowl.
Stu Holcomb of Purdue. coach
of the North squad, gave his
players three and one-half hours
of work. Later, he said the YAM
KEGS would be bigger, stronger
and in better physical condition
than last year. when the North
and South battled to a 21-21 tie.
Andy GuStafson of Miami, the
South tutor, was even more en-
thusiastic.
We'll have good running, su-
perior passing. the best of punt
ing, and a good defense" he said
zeke Bratkowski of Georgia
was throwing with pinpoint ac-
curacy and Gustafson declared
he is the greatest passer ever to
be invited to the North-South
game. Bratkowski also showed
Sideline watchers how he won the
national punting championship
by getting of kicks that travelled
so to IS yards in the air.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
New Ivy League Slate
Expected in 2 Years

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 19
P).-Sports Editor Charles B.
Kellogg of the New Haven
Register predicts that when ex-
listing commitments have been
concluded" the eight Ivy League
colleges will play in their own
league.
Kellogg, in his column for to-
morrow's paper, says our pipe
lines from headquarters tell us
that the die is caSt-that no
later than 1856 each Ivy college
will meet the seven others an
nually. Since many of the COL
leges have signed their schedules
for the next two years, it can't
happen before then"
1T is this writer's opinion,
Kellogg says, that an Ivy
League will be of more general
interest than the present helter-
skelter program. The way it goes
now, Penn can play two Ivy OPP
ponents, beat them both and
wind up champions. Princeton
could play five. beat four, and
still wind up only second. 1t
doesn't make much sense
1T is believed than an un-
written but binding ban will
prohibit such games as Penn
Notre Dame. Army is scheduled
to face Yale in each of the next,
two seasons and there are rumors
that the series will end there,
but whether a ban against the
service academies would be
evoked is something else"
Evening star., 1953-12-20
BY the Associoted Press

PASADENA, Calf, Dec. 49,
California football writer's got
their first in-the-flesh view of
Michigan States Rose Bowl team
in action today and received con-
flrmation OF all they had heard
about the Spartans.
Coach Clarence (Biggie) Mum
left the gates open for the writ
ers for his squads first good
scrimmage since it arrived on
the Rose Bowl scene to play
UCLA. the Pacific Coast Confer
ence champions.
The players proceeded to leave
these vivid impressions:
They are fast, exceptionally
agile, and for a major football
power. unusually small.
This may be no news for Big
Ten fans. who were able to see
them play the co-championship
of the Western Conference.
For the California delegation,
however. it afforded corrobora-
ton for hearsay testimony and
the brief peeks some got from
the Michigan State-Michigan
nationally televised contest No
vember IA.
Just as the Spartans held a
double workout, morning and
afternoon. so did the Bruins of
UCLA drill twice. The heavy
work was reserved for the after
noon sessions.
Assistant Coach Jim Myers of
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Lineup of Post-Seoson Games

Auburn (7-2-D VS.. Texas Tech
t10-D, 2 pm. (EST, 10000,
MBS radio.
Sun Bowl, El Paso, Tex, Mis-
sisSippi Southern (9-D VS.. Texas
Western 7-2), 4 pm. (EST), no
television. possible broadcast.
Cigar Bowl, Tampa, Fla. La
Crosse CWis.) State 900, VS..
Missouri Valley GID, 2::30 pm.
(EST), 10000, local radio broad
cast.
Salad Bowl. Phoenix. Ariz.,
Great Lakes Navy (7-2) VS.. Fort
Ord Q1-0), 3 pm. (EST). local
radio broadcast.
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando. Fla,
Arkansas State (7-0-D VS.. East
Texas State Q0-O, 8p.m. (EST)
1880, no radio or television.
January 2.
Shrine game, San Francisco,
East VS.. West college all-stars.
4:30 pm. tEST), $4,000, DuMont
television. MBS radio.
Elks Bowl. Greenville. S. c.,
Morris Harvey (5-4-D VS.. East
Carolina College (8-D, 2 pm.
(EST). no radio or television.
January 8.
Senior Bowl, Mobile. Ala. all
star college players. 2:45 pm
(ESR. CHS radio.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Michigan State Is Impressive
In First Rose Bowl Workout

UCLA, reporting to the Pasa-
dena press room from Head
Coach Red Sanders, disclosed
that in passing drills this morn
ing the Bruins exceeded most
all regular season performances,
game or practice.
Tailbacks Paul Cameron and
his alternate. Primo Villaneuva,
threw 16 passes and completed
IA.
Asked whether Sanders has
decided on a starting lineup,
particularly the fullback posi-
ton, Myers was noncommittal.
He intimated that Pete Daley,
bristling 168-pounder who is a
senior. might get the call over
Bob Davenport, 1873. sopho-
more.
Davenport's injured knee is
coming along we'll. and the same
is true of Chuck Doud. all-con-
ference tackle.
Mum arrived at the afternoon
practice and found several hun
dred fans outside the gate, hop
ing to get in. He took pity, or
dered them in and got a re-
sounding cheer for his thought
fulnesS.
Then he, in effect, introduced
by name all of the A players
/ as he checked them out to the
field practice. time bowl
observers could not remember
such happenings before.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Terps and Sooners Mentioned
24 Times in Final Statistics

lax of Maryland 10th with 753
yards and 81 average. Ralph
FELTON, of Maryland 48th with
556 yards and SIS average.
Touchdowns for Grigg.
Punting-Bernie Faloney of
Maryland 14th in those with
more than IS but less than SO
punts, with 1877 average.
Punt returns-Merrill Green
of Oklahoma 10th with 225 yards
on five returns.
Scoring-Grigg of Oklahoma
tied for third with 13 touchdowns
for 78 points. Faloney of MaryA
land was among the leaders
with nine touchdowns for 54
points, and FELTON, with six
touchdowns and II points-after
touchdown fer So points.
Point after-touchdown lead
ers: Buddy Leake of Oklahoma
18th IN number kicked, II, but
tops in percentage with II out
of 18 for 94.4. FELTON, of Mary
land 18th with II kicked. He
tried % and had a percentage
of 1873.
Field goals-Dick Bielski of
Maryland tied for first with
three,
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Mountaineers Leave
For Final Bowl Drills
BY the Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, w. Va,
Dec. ia West Virginia Uni
versity football team grimly
aware of the job ahead of it
leaves tomorrow for Biloxi, Miss,
and final preparations for it's
Sugar Bowl engagement with
Georgia Tech at New Orleans.
'The boys are confident that
they can give Tech a good ball
game. and so am I, but each
and every one of the players
knows he's going to have to go
all out" Coach Art Lewis said
today.
"If we don't make a lot of
mistakes, and if We don't tighten
up. we ought to be all right" he
added. Our spirit is good, but
we haven't really drilled enough
since the regular season to tell
about any tenseness,"
The Mountaineer coaches plan
to send the 42-player squad
through two practice sessions a
day on the Biloxi High School
field during next weeks first
four days.
"Therell' be plenty of rough
work" Lewis stressed again to-
day, land we're going to keep the
gates locked. That's the best
way I know of to avoid a lot of
trouble"
After Christmas Day respite,
the Mountaineers will ease up on
the rough work and drill once a
day for the January l test in
New Orleans.
Joe Marconi, the 214-pound,
f1rst-string right halfback who
has been slowed by a slight case
of influenza, has been released
from the university infirmary
here and, Lewis said. 'is OK al
though he looks a little pale"
Evening star., 1953-12-20

you get!
Walter Bogley, the Prince
Georges co-owner. and still a
PGA member won one of the
driving contests in Bermuda
with a 275-yard clout, not with
the wind. That was 275 yards
longer than an effort by Wayne
MCGEE of Bethesda, who whitfield
on the same hole while trying
too hard to knock it out of sight.
Harry Griesmer, the Bethesda
pro, finished fourth in the pro
sweepstakes for all visiting pros
with rounds of 72-72-75 over
three different courses. the last
over Mid-Ocean. one of the
worlds great layouts. Griesmer
had 80 puts in his opening 72.
which could have been 62.
Clagett Stevens, the Manor
pro, shot 70 in a practice round
at Mid ocean, II in tourna-
ment round at Riddell'S Bay,
and then no card in his compet-
tive effort at Mid-Ocean. With
several hundred persons standing
around the first tee. Stevens
was introduced as "the wealth.
lest golf pro in the United
States 1t didn't faze him.
He belted a tee shot far down the
middle
The Manor foursome of Ste
vens, George Thornton, George
CPee-Wee) Cornwell and Bob
Jacobs, won second low net the
first day with a SO, and Bethes-
da's team of MCGEE, Joe TAFT,
DR.. w C. Ready and Griesmer
had 62 for low net the second
day. The wind was blowing so
hard on one round that Cornwell.
a tremendous hitter, carried a
four-wood shot over water on a
287-yard hole just 20 inches from
the pin. Then he missed the putt.
The screwball betting season
is back at East Potomac. There
was more than $100 riding the
other day that Keith Kallio
couldn't play from the first tee
on B all the way down the Point.
hole out on the fourth hole, apd
then tee up and play back to the
ninth in 19 strokes. He missed,
taking 81 when he was trapped
near the fourth green and
wasted two shots.
The next bet was that Kallio
couldn't play from the first
through the fourth and back.
over the pool and clubhouse and
Evening star., 1953-12-20
BY the Associated Press

BY the ASSociofed PfeSs
NEW YORK, Dec. 19,-The
lineup of postseason football
games with won-lost-tied rec
ords. starting times and some
crowd and radio and television
data:
DEC. 25.
At Miami, Fla, North VS..
South Shrine game. BIS pm.
tESTD. $4,000, no broadcasts, no
telecaStS.
DEC. rs.
At Montgomery. Ala. Blue VS..
Gray game, 2::30 pm. tEST)
MBS radio.
JAN. 1.
Rose Bowl, at Pasadena, Calf :,
Michigan State Old VS.. UCLA
(8-I, 5 pm. .(EST), 100000.
NBC radio and television.
Orange Bowl. at Miami. Fla.
Maryland 600 VS.. Oklahoma
(8-1-D. 2 pm. (EST). $3.50.
CHS radio and television.
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans.
Georgia Tech N8-2-D VS.. West
Virginia GID. 2 pm. (ESTl
$4,000. ABC radio and television.
Cotton Bowl. Dallas. Tex. Rice
(8-2l VS.. Alabama t6-2-3). 2pm,
(EST). 75.504, NBC radio and
television.
| Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Continued from Page BID

tiSticS in departments where
either or both drew mention.
Team:
Total offenSe-Maryland sixth
with 359.5 yards per game aver
age. Oklahoma ninth with 352.1.
Rushing offense - Oklahoma
first with 1868 average, Mary
land ninth with 257.8.
Total defense Maryland
third with 1882 yards per game
average, Oklahoma sixth with
1863.
Rushing defense-Maryland
first with 83.9 yards per game
average.
Punting-Maryland 10th with
1872. average. -....
Punt returns Oklahoma
fourth with 1873 yards per game
average runback, Maryland fifth
with 15.5.
Kickoff returns - Maryland
second with 23.5 yards per game
average runback, Oklahoma fifth
with 21.4.
Individuals:
Rushing-Grigg of Oklahoma
eighth with 1872 yards and aver
age OF 6 yards per carry. Hanu-
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Rice Team Sits in Rain
To See High School Game
BY the AssoeIoted Press

HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 10
Rice's Cotton Bowl game work.
outs were called off today but the
Owls sat through miserable
weather to watch a football
game.
A half-inch morning rain can
celled Coach Jess Neely's plans
for an outdoor workout. He dis
missed the squad after a brief
meeting and another look at, the
Alabama Maryland game pic
lures.
This afternoon the Owls were
among the 1900 fans who saw
Houston's Lamar High School
win Texas top schoolboy foot
ball championship by defeating
Odessa, 1877, at Rice Stadium.
Rain also kept the Rice team
indoors yesterday Nicely hopes
to return to his two-a-day work.
out schedule Monday.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Syracuse Rallies 10 Beat
Yale Five Easily, 81-67
By the Assoeiateo Press

SYRACUSE. Dec. 19.-Syra-
cuse overcame a first-period de-
felt to romp to an easy victory
over Yale's basketball team to-
day. 81-67.
The Ellis zone defense caused
the Orangemen some concern
early in the game but Capt. Mel
Besdin began to find the range
with set shots. and the New
Workers had little further diff
f1culty.
Besdin was high scorer with 26
points. fRonnie fitzpatrick. top re-
bounder for Syracuse, scored II
points before he fouled out. TOP
scorer for the Ellis was Ellsworth
Morgan with Is.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Wolff Will Broadcast
Two Bowl Contests

Sportscaster Bob Wolff will
broadcast the Gator Bowl New
Years Day from Jacksonville
(FlaD and the Santa Claus
Bowl, for the midget football
championship, from Lakeland
December 20. 1t will be VOLTS
sixth straight Gator Bowl broad
cast and third straight year for
the Santa Claus Bowl.
He will share the Gator Bowl
assignment, pitting Auburn
against Texas Tech, with Sports
caster Art Gleeson, but will
broadcast the entire play-by-
play of the Santa Claus Bowl.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
All Comment Refused
After Ivy Presidents
Meet on New League
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Presi-
dents Of the eight colleges in the
informal Ivy football group met
in New York yesterday with
plans to formalize the group re-
portedly high on their agenda.
Only A. Whitney Griswold,
Yale president, could be reached
today and his mo comment" an
swer was followed with I'm aw-
fully sorry but I have no COM
ment at this time. That was
agreed upon by all the presidents
there. I'll be glad to talk to you
when it becomes news"
Other colleges in the Ivy
League, a loosely-knit organiza-
ton that has existed on an in
formal basis for half a century.
are Pennsylvania, Princeton,
Cornell. Columbia, Harvard,
Dartmouth and Brown.
The presidents of the eight
colleges met several years ago
and drew up an agreement that
banned spring football practice
and also reiterated the groups
opposition to bowl games.
Now, it is reported, the presi-
dents hope to make the group a
formal organization and would
restrict the number of football
games with non-group teams.
This past season. for instance,
Penn played eight outside op-
ponents and only Cornell of the
Ivy family.
If the formalization is carried
out, it is expected that the ban
on spring practice and the oppo-
sition to bowl games will be con-
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Evening star., 1953-12-20
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hole out on the second hole of F
course in % strokes. He won that
one, playing the approximate
3.700 yards in 81 strokes. He
fooled the players who thought
he might get tangled up in an
unplayable lie in the swimming
pool by veering off and playing
around the clubhouse via the
driving range. About 20 players
who had pieces of the bet. fol-
lowed the match.
Kallio could do better sticking
to straight golf, inasmuch as he
had a recent week at East Po-
tomac in which he played every
day and was 18 under par for the
seven days.
DIVOT DATA-The cold spell
is threatening tomorrow's sched-
uled pro-amateur at the Court
House Club in Fairfax, next stop
on the Mid-Atlantic PGA's
Icicle Circuit. The event is still
on, however Jerry Long, the
East Potomac pro-manager,
starts another group lesson class
at the YWCA January 13. There
are classes for beginners and
one for advanced beginners on
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from
Z to 9 pm. Men and women
may register at the "Y."
Johnny Musser. the All View
pro. set an unofficial mark for
his Ellicott City course last week
when he turned in a 7-under-
par IS. The official record is
Charley BasSler's 81 Frank
Tenney, White Flint pro, has
gone into business with his
father-in -in-law in Baltimore, and
probably will decide after an off
season trial at the new business
whether he will quit pro golf.
Dutch Harrison, who helped
Fred Bolton open the latter's
new driving range at 6307 Wis
consin avenue NV. told the
golfers in a serious moment at
the clinic the other night that
Wintertime practice was i'm
portant in developing hand &C
ton. Dutch added that practice
at an indoor range gave a golfer
an opportunity to swing without
putting too much body in the
ball, inasmuch as he wasn't try
ing for distance. when I'm
playing good I feel the palm of
my right hand is facing the
green at the moment of impact"
Dutch said. That's something
to strive for in winter practice"
Table Tennis Today
Singles and doubles table
tennis competition for men,
women and juniors will be held
by the District Table Tennis Club
at 4 pm. today at 403 Eleventh
street NV.