Word: cbs
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...previously unchristened lakes. Picked for immortality among the state's 10,000 or more lakes: the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Harrison E. (for Evans) Salisbury; Look's Editorial Director Daniel D. (for Danforth) Mich; Humorist (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) Max Shulman; Sig Mickelson, CBS's vice president in charge of news; Reader's Digest Editor (and founder) DeWitt Wallace; and CBS's chief Washington correspondent, North Dakota-born A.(for Arnold) Eric Sevareid, onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Journal and Minneapolis Star. The newsman-named lakes will keep cartographic company with...
...bathtub tumble at her Hollywood home, grand old (78) Actress Ethel Barrymore broke a forearm bone, thus was out of action for this week's filming of a CBS-TV melodrama, The Brand of Jesse James, in which she was to play the bad man's grandma...
...CBS and its No. 1 newsman, Edward R. Murrow, have long enjoyed a reputation as front runners in their field. Last week, while shining in one form of TV journalism (see below), they took a back seat in reporting the news. When the news was flashed shortly after 10:48 p.m., E.S.T., that the U.S. had launched its first earth satellite, CBS had Murrow himself on camera, chatting with Actor Cyril Ritchard on Person to Person about such weighty questions as "What is the most important thing in the world to you?" Rival NBC, which was luckily televising a discussion...
Thus began an extraordinary hour of television this week on CBS's See It Now, choice fragments from a ten-hour interview spaced over four days last February in a quiet cottage in the Florida Keys. The ten hours of film and a 620-page transcript of the whole interview, the first such portrait of an ex-President ever done, will become part of the Truman Library at Independence, Mo. For speaking freely, Truman asked only to put the lid (for his lifetime) on some 45 minutes of the conversation, covering half a dozen such questions...
...Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence...