Most TV-set owners end a long stretch of daytime televiewing with an obscure sense of guilt, as if they had sneaked off to a movie in the middle of a business day. But last week, as millions sat glued to the telecasts of the Manhattan hearings of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, televiewing was for once accompanied by a glowing sense of civic purpose.
The hearings were bigger than Berle.* The research firm of Videodex reported that 69.7% of New York's sets were turned onmore than twice as many as during a weekday World...
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