Radio & TV: Beautiful Words

Hollywood TVmen are inclined to look askance at Director Albert McCleery when he says, with deep conviction: "Television is only for those who believe in it like a religion . . . It is the dream of mankind, the magic box that will bring man the world." Unlike many other TV boosters, ex-Paratrooper McCleery backs up his big words with ambitious actions. On his Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he has staged shows ranging from the two-hour Maurice Evans Hamlet to an hour-long excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's gargantuan, garrulous novel, Of Time...

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