Television: Light Subject

Ordinarily the hucksters gobble down the prime cuts of television time, while the experimenters, the educators and the innovators have to pick at the spare and bony hours when nobody is looking, or everybody is dozing from too much Sunday dinner. Last week the salesmen risked a little experimenting themselves and alloted one of TV's choicest hours to a program devoted to science and scientists. It was a pleasant and nourishing dish. With CBS's Our Mr. Sun, the first of a seven-part, hourlong Bell Telephone series, TV proved that though there is nothing new under the sun, there is a good...

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