Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of the bell-clanging news stories of the past quarter-century. By 1941, after covering the blitz in Britain, Edward Roscoe Murrow was prestigious enough to be an intimate of F.D.R., and by 1946 (it took a bit more doing), important enough to be a vice president of CBS. But within two years he had abandoned his desk and paper-shuffling, and by 1951 was spending most of his energy on See It Now, the high-cost (up to $100,000 per show) documentary which, on subjects from Nasser to segregation, came as close as TV ever...
...name narrator. Moreover, Ed Murrow got into deep water with his scarcely responsible The Business of Sex (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). Last week Ed Murrow indulged in a little escapism of his own, announced he would take a year's leave of absence from CBS for "traveling, listening, reading and trying to learn." Murrow, now 50, insists that he will report back for work on July 1, 1960. His replacement on Person to Person: Arthur Godfrey...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).*The capture of a television comedian speeding in his sports car hardly seems a suitable exploit for an ambitious small-town marshal. But TV marshals who catch anything besides cattle rustlers are a refreshing rarity. Trap for a Stranger has also snared Dick Van Dyke and Teresa Wright...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Dingaling Girl by Playwright J. P. Miller (who made a name for himself with The Days of Wine and Roses last year) is a new treatment of the old tale about a shy young housewife catapulted to Hollywood stardom. In the cast: Diane Varsi as the modest heroine, Sam Jaffe as the shrewd director, Eddie Albert as the poor but ambitious husband...
Schlitz Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). On the Brink gives Mercedes McCambridge the chance to try a little brinksmanship with her own life as she plays the doting aunt horning in on a deadly family feud...