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0-19 (Nev. 1-11-60) THK O’BRIAN SAYS: Letters--We' | Get Letters! " Letters—we get letters; Just lke Perry Como: From an NBC operative: : “The spying and counterspying going on among the three networks in their antics covering the National Conventions is enough to fill many episodes of Peter Gunn. On our end, we've heard. from the Los Angeles Sports Arena authorities that CBS has . been found tracing our camera cables ~ Jack O'Brian to find out if we have latched onto any secret camera positions. — +. “Dhe feeling here is that blond female corres- | - pondents, comedians interspersed between serious busi- ¢ ness, oxygen tanks and vibrator chairs for tired poli- tictans is strictly gimmicky. NBC has vetoed such @ ” gimmickry. . ° “We have been offered the great opportunity to hire -several aspirant-imitators of Will Rogers—several of the sick en Sy ; prenrnanten oe aw OS re ee as strictly roadblocks to running a TV and radio newsroom ; = “operation.” ; ; oo. oa = oy | . ‘e e e RECENTLY WE WROTE of considerable dissatisfaction | ‘rising in many official places at the manner swhich “The. *. , Untouchables”. —which started out as a two-pa: Desilu Pia: Play: :*” : house dramatization of Elliot Ness’ heroically effective income| : = indown of Al Capone after everything else had failed— am ches spread its false claims of TV jurisdiction over the solu- tion of almost everything in sight, from great FBI cases to ; | she story of the slaying of Chicago’s Mayor Cermak by 8 oo - Tl" tragic nit who really, was trying ‘to assassinate President : ‘Roosevelt. ..'*° Many government heroes are having their bureaucratic toes and sometimes necks, stepped on. The simple truth is -that Elliot Ness didn’t solve a fraction of the cases Robert). “Btack -is dramatized .as cracking. The customary poverty ef TV imagination encourages the strange fear that the ‘public won't accept pure fiction in “The Untouchables” (ai- : though it comes pretty close most of the. time) and that Trot Will harm tts ratings. —. ee a REG 25 BSdUL19060 x 8 fay ’ » * oy | comedians among them—and they’ve all been turned down es € NOT RECORDED 117 JUL 13 400 The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News __ The Evening Star _ New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post a The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street t Journal - " Date .