TV Guide (October 19, 1951)

T«l*Vision Guide, Inc. Oct. 19-25,1951 PROGRAMS_6-30 DAYTIME PROGRAMS_ 13 Gripe of the Week Why does Bill Slater on Twenty Questions so obviously ignore Johnny McPhee and act so nasty when Johnny does get the answer? We like the program but are fed up with Bill Slater’s treatment of Johnny.—Ttoo Disgusted Viewers. TV Guide Inside TV_ 3 Letters to the Editor_ 4 Lloyd Nolan: the New Martin Kane 8 Screening the Sports by Jimmy Powers 9 Your TV Investigator _ 12: The Verse Boner Vet Alexander Graham Bell Would have shared my delight At the amusing boner Committed Tuesday night. On Armstrong Theater,' When the phone connection was gone— The voice on the other end Went speaking right on]—Florence Rich, N. Y. [We’re sending you two tickets for what you said. You’re a real boner-catcher. Congratulations! -Ed.J Vo Boner The Armchair Spectator_ 13 Channel Chatter_ 15 I noted a boner on Boston Blackie. The crimi¬ nals, after beating up Kent Smith, dashed away in a Nash sedan. But the program is sponsored by Ford.—McZ Silver, Brooklyn. [That’s no boner. Ford probably was making a subtle point.—En.] Six Tips for Beauty by Richard Willis 16 MacLevy’s Wonderful Salons_ 24 Tropical Fish on TV_ 28 Publisher: Lee Wagner Executive Editor; Harold B. Clemenko Executive Vice-President: ten Ruskin Chairman of Board; Lew Sarnoff Managing Editor: William Jeffers Sports Editor: Jimmy Powers Women’s Editor: Barbara Frost Program Editor: Louise Hanley Program Editor: Rose 1. Schiller Contributing Editors: Joseph Wiegers Herbert Muschel • Charles Sinclair Staff Photographer: Peter Fiand Art Director: Tony Ferrara Production Director: James Giommo Advertising Director: A. J, Segal Natl. Adv. Mgr.: R. J. Reynolds, Jr. Circulation Director; Joseph Bodkin U.S. Pof. OffO, Int., 251 W«st 42nd ! N. Y. BRyont 9.00SO. Subsetiplion pric 15 cents per copy. AllOW FOUR mi rkly by Television Guide (Reg. .- . .... .. ._JR WSEKS FOR ADDRESS CHANGE. GIVE OID AND NEW ADDRESSES. PLEASE INCLUDE POSTAL ZONE NUMBER. Re entered os second doss matter April 4, 1950. of the Post Office of New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 3, 1879. More Boner Beporters John Caragias, Irvington, N. J.: On Plain- clothesman a “dead” man got up and walked away when the camera inadvertently caught him. Mrs. P. Murmer, Elizabeth, N. J.: Casey, Crime Photographer, snapped a picture of two men, kneeling and beating a third on the floor. But when we saw the developed picture, all the men were standing up. Some camera! Stephen Pelletiere, Brooklyn: On The Aldrich Family, Sept. 14, Henry, Homer and Charlie all complained they didn’t have any money. But then Henry made a call from a telephone booth. What did he use—a slug? ^ Harriet Gay Scharf, Ramsey, N. J.: On Faye Emerson’s program, September 15, a soda jerker, meaning to heap praise on the show’s sponsor, Pepsi-Cola, gave the plug to Coca-Cola! Every Other Brooklyn Home Many, many thanks for the swell layout on Red Barber and Vince Scully donating blood. If the comments I have received are any indi¬ cation, TV GtriDE must go' into every second home here in Brooklyn! Your interest and co¬ operation means a great deal to the success of our efforts.—Roy Popkin, Director of Public In¬ formation, American National Red Cross, Bklyn, The Only Brain? In answer to Mrs. Van Derbyn, who thinks Miss Kilgallen has the answers on WhaPs My Line, it’s plain to me that Dorothy is the only member of the panel with a brain'. She takes notes 4