To the average U. S. citizen the promise of television means the ultimate possibility of going to the cinema in his own home, of seeing newsreels at the moment news happens. To Paramount Pictures executives it meant much the same. thing last August when they bought half interest in Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc., laid plans to take a potential competitor into cinema's camp.
Last week Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount's executive committee, served notice that his company had not only jumped on television's bandwagon but was out to do the driving. He announced...
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