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Preview Teletype NEW YORK Bob Stahl reports: CBS has completed casting "The Man Who Came to Dinner" for its monthly Best of Broadway series. Besides MONTY WOOLLEY, JOAN BENNETT and ZASU PITTS, show will feature MERLE OBERON, REGINALD GARDINER, BUSTER KEATON and BERT LAHR . . . Also scheduled for mid-December is "Philadelphia Story," in which it's hoped KATHARINE HEPBURN will star. NBC, having run into spectacular difficulties with its Monday night "spectaculars," is trying to sign DAVID 0. SELZNICK to .replace ailing LELAND HAYWARD . . . Despite contrary rumors, GOODMAN ACE is definitely back as MILTON BERLE's head writer. * * * JEANMAIRE stars in MAX LIEBMAN's second Saturday night spectacular Oct. 23, in an original musical comedy based on the Jazz Era . . . JAMES MICHENER, "South Pacific" authtfr, is writing another musical about the South Seas for LIEBMAN, who hopes FRANK SINATRA will be able to star. ABC, seeking a new title for its upcoming Postal Inspector show, received this suggestion from its program director, BOB LEWINE: "The Mail Animal." HOLLYWOOD Dan Jenkins reports: HELEN HAYES is the first star signed for DAVID 0. SELZNICK's "Light's Diamond Jubilee" one-shot of Sunday, Oct. 24. SELZNICK is shooting for other big names, includ¬ ing MARILYN MONROE ... An upcoming Chrysler Shower of Stars entry reportedly will be "Sugar Hill," with an all- Negro cast including SAMMY DAVIS, Jr., ETHEL WATERS, DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, CAB CALLOWAY and ROCHESTER. * * * NBC's The Duke , which has just taken over the 8:30 Saturday night spot, will stay until the bugs are ironed out of the projected CLAUDETTE COLBERT series. Latest dope is CLAUDETTE balks at a weekly show and NBC is up in the air. * * * WALTER O'KEEFE will do a daily 15-minute show. Feather Your Nest , for CBS . . . First MARTIN and LEWIS C omedy Hour of the new season has been moved to Oct. 3 . . .That's My Boy, on CBS, has shifted quietly to film . . . HANS CONREID and WALTER CATLETT, two of Hollywood's ablest character actors, have signed for the ARTHUR LAKE pilot. Meet the Family , being financed by MARION DAVIES. *Trade-mark, Teletype Corp. 31