TV Guide (August 20, 1955)

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Piltsburgh Edition Margie Hirth Donald Buka, the Pittsburgh actor who starred with John Forsythe and Bob Crosby on the Climax! produc¬ tion of “One Night Stand,” broke into the theater here when he was a freshman at the Carnegie Tech Drama School. Buka walked in on Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne while they were playing the old Nixon and said straight out he’d like to read for them. The Lunts liked what they heard and saw and promptly took the youngster along in their repertory company . . . Westinghouse has already bought the complete radio and TV coverage of the 1956 presidential conventions and elections over the CBS net¬ work . . . The original conferences in New York between Josie Carey and Fred Rogers and NBC on the Children’s Corner deal were so hush- hush Josie and Fred didn’t even fly there in a regular commercial plane. They went in a private craft. Pittsburgh Dateline Harold V. Cohen and Stephanie Diamond will cut their Province- town, Mass., vacation short by a few days in order to fly to Baltimore on September 3 for the wedding of Sarah Kallins to Jimmy Feldman, the son of the Cohens’ good friends, Dorothy and Joe Feldman, the ad¬ vertising man . . . Don’t be sur¬ prised if a panel program with a lot of local names patterned after WQED’s The Creeks Had a Word for It turns up on one of the com¬ mercial channels here this fall . . . EZC Ranch Gal Margie Hirth’s big¬ gest thrill in Hollywood during her vacation there was sitting next to Doris Day at a restaurant. Doris is and has long been Margie’s idol. . . . Two of the Topnotchers, who will become regulars on the Arthur Godfrey morning show September 12, are brothers of Nino Repepi, the local night club singer; the third one is his brother-in-law. Channels listed in program section Q KDKA-TV 0 WJAC-TV O WTRF-TV Q WSTV-TV fli) WFBG-TV Q) WQED (0 WENS © WARD-TV (ABC, CBS, Du Mont, NBC) (ABC, CBS, Du Mont, NBC) (ABC, NBC) (ABC, CBS) (ABC, CBS, Du Mont, NBC) (No Affiliate) (ABC, CBS, NBC) (ABC,‘CBS, DuMont) Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. 329 Main St., Johnstown, Pa. 1329 Market St., Wheeling, West Va. Exchange Realty Bldg., Steubenville, Ohio Gable Arcade, Altoona, Pa. 4337 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 700 Ivory Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 235 Franklin St., Johnstown, Pa. Copyright 1955 Television News, Inc. Staff; W. F. Adler, Editor; Jim Marks, Managing Editor; Harold V. Cohen, Feature Editor; R. B. Adler, Associate Editor; Rita Could, Virginia Long and Nina Karie Program Editors; Dan McSweeney, Advertising Manager; Tom Mullen, Business Manager. Address: TV GUIDE, Wm. Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. EX 1-1664, TWX: PC 402 Member: Audit Bureau of Circulations TV GUIDE A-1