Word: eds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the opportunity to lambast Du Mont because "they showed unions in an unfavorable light." Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along one wall, strategically placed a third behind the committee to pick up documents exchanged across the table and Senator McClellan's fancy doodlings. TV-savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared...
...networks' highly competitive efforts to bag big names for TV portraits, CBS gets most of the major beats, e.g., Ed Murrow's interviews with Tito and Chou Enlai, Face the Nation's with Khrushchev. Last week NBC was in hot pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba...
...Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs" in science. After six years on TV, Lucy and Desi are taking refuge in five hour-long musical comedies, and Studio One begins its ninth year with a report on Orson Welles's 1938 Martian "invasion," with Ed Murrow narrating. Murrow's See It Now will include reports on Marian Anderson's upcoming tour of the Orient, the statehood problem of Alaska and Hawaii, and the rebirth of German industry. Songbird Patti Page will be involved in "a new TV concept" called The Big Record, a guest...
...soldier will recognize the oldest goldbricking dodge in uniform-"circumcision as a health measure."-ED...
...touch culturally" and never sees the same TV that other people see. "For one thing, we have one of the first sets ever built, which means that if you squat so close to it that your knees rub against the dial buttons, you can almost see Ed Sullivan. We cling to it, all ten inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation piece." But then-every time the Kerrs save...