The two major networks resumed their old, over-ballyhooed Sunday-at-8 fray this week with two new opponents: Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, 21, v. Musicomedienne Mary Martin, 43—the two biggest audience-pullers today. Elvis, doing the second of a $50,000 trio of shows for CBS and Ed Sullivan, posed a fancy threat, but Mary, starring in Born Yesterday (Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC), was still TV champion. There were no hard feelings backstage either. "Elvis is jus' darlin','' drawled Texas-born Mary. "Besides, I can't be mad. My mother's name was Presley. We might just be kinfolks."
Walk Like a Girl. As the eager, unlettered...
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