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#10650: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1950-12-04, WNBC, min.

TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959.

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948.

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.”

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.”

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show.

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003.

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINK SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world.

Today's Headlines: Bleak news from Korea; General MacArthur admits retreat, million Chinese Reds poised to enter South Korea. Clement Attlee to confer with President Truman to urge peace with China. Comment on current crisis, Senator Margaret Chase Smith urges use of A-bomb,
Today's Guest: 71-year-old Pat Rooney, Sr. Vaudevillian.

#13061: FACE THE NATION PANEL

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1956-11-04, WCBS, 10 min.

November 7, 1954-April 20, 1961
September 15, 1963-

Host: Griffing Bancroft 
William Hines jr (Washington Star), 
Arthur Sylvester (Newark News), 
Peter Lisagor (Chicago Daily News).  

Eleanor Roosevelt attacks Middle Eastern foreign policy, discusses the Soviet Union and states that the world situation is not presently a good one, pointing out that here has been a failure of current American leadership. 

Senator Margaret Chase Smith comments on the current crises in the Middle East, Yugoslavian leader Tito, Egyptian Prime Minister  Nasser...latest news related to  Secretary of State John Foster Dulles cancer diagnosis...her confidence that Herbert Hoover Jr. will be effective substituting for Dulles if necessary. Smith states that there is currently high prosperity in the USA and that President Eisenhower will be reelected for a second term as President.

NOTE: Roosevelt and Smith were the first two women to appear on "Face The Nation," on its second anniversary broadcast.

#14411: CBS NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE, THE

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1964-01-27, CBS, min.

Marina Oswald (widow of Lee Harvey Oswald) gives an interview, Dela Beckwith goes on trial for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, Margaret Chase Smith to run for president, guerilla activity in the Congo-priests killed, France recognizes Red China.   

Host: Walter Cronkite.

#14473: VOICES IN THE HEADLINES: ABC RADIO NEWS

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1964-03-15, ABC, min.

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

Topics: The Jack Ruby trial verdict, Jimmy Hoffa sentenced, Turkish-Greek strife over Cyprus.Other news: Henry Cabot Lodge wins the New Hampshire primary, comments by Nelson Rockefeller Senator Barry Goldwater, Margaret Chase Smith, William Miller, and Richard Nixon, Malcolm X separates from the Muslims, Martin Luther King comments. 

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.

#17322: WOMAN OF THE YEAR FOR 1973

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1973-05-14, CBS, 59 min.

WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1973 is a Special CBS one hour prime time broadcast that seems lost to history. It is not even notated on IMDb or anywhere to be found on the internet.

Awards are given for American women, the "doers, achievers, and shapers of society."

Rosalind Russell is host for the ceremonies, sponsored by the Ladies' Home Journal. Lenore Hershey is introduced.

Eight woman are presented with gold pendants during the hour, which is telecast live from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Introductions and short biographies follow.

Margaret Chase Smith introduces Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.):public affairs.

Marlo Thomas introduces Helen Hayes: arts and humanities.

Barbara Walters introduces Katharine Graham: president of the Washington Post Company: business and economy.

Lynda Johnson Robb introduces Poet Nikki Giovanni: youth leadership.

Kathryn Crosby introduces Dr. Virginia Apgar: for work against birth defects.

Cicely Tyson introduces Ladonna Harris:
for civil rights activities on behalf of American Indians.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver introduces Mary Lasker: for encouraging medical research and national beautification.

Mamie Eisenhower introduces Ellen Straus: creator of WMCA radio "call for action" hot line in which listeners talk about community problems.

Comedy related to women's liberation and accomplishment are interspersed during the broadcast.

Cloris Leachman and Tony Randall in a "Woman for President" skit,
Sandy Duncan and Jack Klugman in a "First American Woman to go into Outer Space skit, and Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna in an "I am a Person" skit.

Helen Reddy sings "I Am Woman."

At the conclusion the entire ensemble sing Katharine Lee Bates' "America, America."

Complete broadcast with Clairol commercials.

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#10650: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1950-12-04, WNBC, min.

#13061: FACE THE NATION PANEL

1956-11-04, WCBS, 10 min.

#14411: CBS NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE, THE

1964-01-27, CBS, min.

#14473: VOICES IN THE HEADLINES: ABC RADIO NEWS

1964-03-15, ABC, min.

#17322: WOMAN OF THE YEAR FOR 1973

1973-05-14, CBS, 59 min.