Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show was memorable not as a play but as a document of the frightened fascination with which some writers regard Hollywood, as if it were a basketful of hypnotizing snakes. In The Velvet Alley, produced on CBS' Playhouse 90, TV Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and overnight becomes rich, famous and an s.o.b. Where once he listened to music while he worked (he apparently owned only one phonograph record, Swan Lake), now the only music heard is the snarling...
Edward Roscoe Murrow, one of the reportorial heroes of the Battle of Britain and TV's David against Goliath McCarthy, last week found his name linked with what one snickering newspaper called "doves of sin." It happened through CBS radio's lively tabloid report on "The Business of Sex" (TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when...
...capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole thing as grist for Communist propaganda, sent out a girl reporter to interrogate Murrow. The reporter tracked him to the very door of a CBS washroom, but got no information, was reduced to reporting about his red suspenders ("They're cute"). The Journal also came close to daring CBS to sue for libel by suggesting (so far without any supporting evidence) that the show had been a hoax, that actors and actresses had been...
...CBS Producer Irving Gitlin stoutly insisted that all the voices heard on the program were authentic, that three reporters had spent three months gathering background information and one month taping the interviews. Wasn't it strange that so many people had been willing to discuss so unsavory a business? Maybed Gitlin: "Maybe it's because all these people have a sense of guilt about what they're doing." How had the CBS reporters found their sources? Gitlin: "I can't go into details...
Washington figures wise in the ways of newsmen are the most polished practitioners of the TV headline art. Ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck first admitted his curious loans from the union on CBS's Face the Nation, thereby softening the effect when the loans were brought up later by the Senate's McClellan committee. It was on ABC's College News Conference that Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler announced that Southern segregationists might be forced out of the party...