The Busy Air

P: In Baltimore, viewers of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living got a jolt when the bishop asked the rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer on ABC.

P: In Manhattan, TV soap operas carried an even greater load of grief than usual as leading characters on Brighter Days, First Love, Golden Windows and The Inner Flame were either accused of or confessed to murder.

P: In Miami, Conductor Leopold Stokowski blew a fuse when he heard himself described over the air as being 74 years of age and the son of an Irish mother. Cried Stokowski: "No, no, no, no. That's not true. I was born in 1887 . . . That's a damned lie. My mother was not Irish. This is terrible--where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia of Music. Stokowski took himself off in high dudgeon, refused to clarify for reporters either his birth date or parentage.

P: I In Manhattan, cowboys appeared to have better staying power than spacemen as Du Mont announced that next month it was canceling Captain Video, the oldest (seven years) interplanetary show on TV.

P: In London, the new commercial TV network scheduled to go on the air in September announced that it would cooperate with the BBC in leaving British TV screens blank from 6 to 7 every evening. Purpose: to enable parents to tear moppets away from TV sets, feed them and put them to bed before the night's programs begin.

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