TV Guide (May 14, 1955)

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Tomorrow Tomorrow, the new Johns Hopkins University TV show on ABC, is basi¬ cally a job counseling service for teen¬ age viewers. As such, it effectively serves a worthwhile purpose. Using various members of the Johns Hopkins faculty, Tomorrow discusses topics like anthropology and medical technology, then describes the career opportun¬ ities in those particular fields. Non¬ job-seeking adults will find the pro¬ gram interesting, too. Originating in Baltimore, Tomorrow is produced and narrated by faculty member Lynn Poole. He’s the same educator who anticipated Medic and other TV medical programs with the Johns Hopkins Science Review, which won a goodly number of awards. Al¬ though Poole displays on Tomorrow much the same imagination in using TV to educate, he could get better Tomorrow's narrator-host: Lynn Poole. results with slightly more professional know-how. By cutting those long opening speeches, for example. The program has no set format. For the session on medical technology, the cameras focussed on laboratory technicians while the educator ex¬ plained their work. Other sessions featured straight discussion periods. For any teen-ager wondering about his own “tomorrow,” this program should be extremely valuable.— R.S. FINE TUNING ^ By Ollie Crawford Resort operators criticize TV weath¬ ermen. These resort owners—just fair-weather friends. • It seems they want the wet weather reporters to dry up. • The resort owners claim the TV weather reports are over-drama¬ tized. The report is for a big city, but it could be for a Hamlet. When one guy forecasts rain, he makes Noah sound like an optimist. The last time he forecast a slight dew, it started a boom in the Ark market. • He’s the first guy to win an Os¬ car for “On the Weatherfront.” This boy is on the weather show, but he must be bucking for Robert Montgomery Presents. His favorite leading ladies are Hurricane Edna and Hurricane Carol. He’s the boy who put a couple of tornados in the weather report just to spice up the second act. He reads the barometer the way Maurice Evans reads Shakespeare. • Just to give you an idea, his re¬ corded theme song is Gale Storm singing “Stormy Weather.” • The TV weather reports are now so visual that nobody talks about the weather and everybody does something about it.