A comedian who had been on the air only eight times in five years took a firm grasp on a network mike last weekas the star of his own Danny Kaye Show (CBS, Sat., 8-8:30p.m,, E.W.T.).
No Johnny-come-lately to show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could...
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