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Show BY LYN CONNELLY ""pHE Emmy awards tor "the best in television" have been handed out tor another year and while most of them were deserved We can't help but wonder out loud about certain, omissions . , . We were happy to see Dinah Shore come in for her share ot glory because be-cause we know of no one else who so deserves it V. . She's sunny and bright and ' haa the very happy knack of "being able, to lilt the most disheartened Viewer out of his doldrums . . . She's an extremely ex-tremely hard worker and will do most anything to Improve the show.' We thought Jack Benny's award for all-around excellence was well deserved, too, but thought the one he received for the best Job of portraying himself should have gone to Ferry Como, who was sadly sad-ly neglected this year . . . We thought, too, that her colleagues could have paid tribute to Oracle Allen . . . This great comedienne ends 36 years of show business with her retirement this season . . . She looks Just as young and is just as zany-in-a-pleasant-sort-of-way as always and we scowled when she was ignored last year, but this year when she will have no further chance to compete, it . seems unforgivable that she should have been ignored again . . . What modern comedienne can endure 36 years', exposure? Another serious omission In our book was Flayhpuse 90's production produc-tion of ".The Miracle Worker'" . . . Here was a tensely dramatic, terrifically, ter-rifically, performed play about Helen Keller as a child that held the viewer completely enthralled . . . Yet neither the stars, the director di-rector or the writer won a dandelion dande-lion or their achievement ... Instead, In-stead, an unoriginal story about a show business personality, "The Comedian," won the Emmy for the best writer, Rod Serling, who also won last year with a lightweight light-weight drama about a heavyweight. |