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Who sabotaged this potentially good ABC-TV show? Who has thus made the American inventor appear to be some sort of a ild,latrine-lettered degree holder? Even the supposedly firm and well-qualified judges seemed be embarressed by the injection of burlesque Chic Sale undertones.
Here was a show with real promise. It had a fresh Tom Swift hope element built in It is off to muddied start, but let's hope the track is cleaner and clearer ahead.
ntions which will be seeking our approval; products for us to use and enjoy while we cut down the work load placed upon us in his 2lst Century.
The public, grown weary of seeing lists of our collections of rich people's homes, stuff-an-things museums and art museums, colleges, giant stores, slums and National Parks. And, speaking of "parks" reminds me: do you remember when Bert Parks presented America's most beautiful women from Atlantic City. Bert Park should also be remembered as the man who did the most to keep the word "boardwalk"in our native language.
I had high hopes for a TV show in the "great" tradition to feature great new inventions. It has aired two weeks, now and I, for one, out of millions I'm happy to hope, have been woefully disappointed in the nature of material submitted. The first shows were handled with what must be called "special care" by someone who does not does not seem to have liked the shows idea at all. How could it possibly be that the first items shown in the first two weeks of the of the show have been questionable productsrelated to personal hygiene - one idea just a wee bit more stupid than the other? Could this placement have occurred as an accident? Somebody there in TV land used a hand so that burlesque-Chic Sale program material was used as opener item each week.
