Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev moved out of his wood-paneled office in the Kremlin one day last week so a CBS crew could strew it with cameras, lights and sound equipment. Next afternoon Russia's most powerful Communist stepped into the glare wearing the light grey suit the TV men had suggested, and two Hero of Socialist Labor medals on his chest. He firmly rejected any makeup, declined earphones for the simultaneous translation system, corrected an introduction describing the office as the room where Russia's major decisions are made: "We don't have a cult of personality...
...questions on See It Now (TIME, Jan. 7), Khrushchev played by U.S. ground rules, asked in advance only for what fields the questions would cover. Producer Ted Ayers replied so broadly that he left a free hand to his panel, Moderator Stuart Novins and Moscow Correspondents Daniel Schorr of CBS and B. J. Cutler of the New York Herald Tribune...
...industry looked ahead with mutterings and misgivings last week to one of the fall season's new castings: John Crosby in the dual role of TV critic for the New York Herald Tribune (plus 92 other papers) and a well-paid CBS performer, presiding over the network's ambitious, hour-long Sunday afternoon show, The Seven Lively Arts...
...attempt to find out what it could of Galíndez and the subsequent disappearance of Gerald Murphy, the young soldier of fortune who flew him to his fate, involved CBS in a sort of thriller of its own. Of 200 witnesses questioned by CBS reporters, 50 refused to talk. Many, asked for FBI protection, agreed to talk only anonymously. Witnesses were interviewed in darkened Manhattan offices in the middle of the night, some bringing lawyers with them. The wife of one witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking...
...little success adapting the misty works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with their subtle concerns for class cravings, lost illusions and elusive ideals. But then, neither have the stage and cinema. In adapting Fitzgerald's frail short story Winter Dreams for last week's Playhouse go over CBS, Emmy Winner James P. Cavanagh came close to Fitzgerald's mood without sticking to Fitzgerald's theme. The play retained the tender struggle of the central characters, but juggled scenes and dialogue to capture the nuances of the separate worlds that preoccupied Fitzgerald-the middle class of "proud, desirous...