Word: collingwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Newscaster Charles Collingwood conducts a tour of the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan, where Dr. René Dubos is conducting his own tour of The World...
...Author West (Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It) said or done anything naughty before the cameras? "Certain minds always misconstrue everything," said the past mistress of double-meaning ribaldry. "I have a very big public that understands what I say." Exactly what happened when CBS Interviewer Charles Collingwood came up and saw Mae in her Hollywood apartment? One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom. "They're for personal observation," said Mae, deadpan. "I always like to know how I'm doing." Sensing that the going...
...Shirer. Soon the two switched from "cultural stuff" to report the Austrian Anschluss, and then, as Europe hurtled toward war, Murrow began hiring the core of what is still the best news staff of the networks. Among the "Murrow boys," as CBS calls them: Eric Sevareid, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood. Richard Hottelot, David Schoenbrun and Bill Downs...
...situation on the British side was strikingly different. England expected every admiral to do his duty as he saw it, even at the risk of being haled before the Board of Admiralty for making mistakes. So independent were British admirals that Nelson's second-in-command, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, greeted his commander's famed "England expects" message with the words: "I wish Nelson would stop signalling. We know well enough what we have...
...Collingwood believes that, among other things, Adventure, by putting scientists on the TV screen, has shown viewers that they are not necessarily dusty or stuffy people. Some are witty, wellrounded, even handsome. The show has ranged widely over the fields of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, ecology, mammalogy, oceanography, paleontology, ichthyology, and as often as possible embryology, largely because the museum embryologist happens to be Dr. Evelyn Shaw, a very pretty redhead. This week Collingwood took a look at the magnificent Bayeux Tapestry (some 230 ft. long), and through it at the bloodstained hills of Hastings in 1066 and British national origins...