Radio: Something Old, Something New

The desire to settle old scores gave a crusading fervor last week to the first Ed Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). With blood in his eye, veteran Comic Wynn was out to challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV—nobody will give him a job in a couple of years").

Wynn had promised to bring to TV "something old and something new, but nothing...

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