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...Berlin? (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Chet Huntley as narrator of a film about the beleaguered city's postwar history...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Première of an ambitious news show that attempts to look at everything under the moon-and probably a few things on it. The opening program, with Chet Huntley as narrator, deals with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have escaped from East to West Germany...
...seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres (ABC's popular John Cameron Swayze), and even in pairs (NBC's intelligent and informative duet, earnest Chet Huntley and wry David Brinkley). TV's journalists flit all over, like the technically muscle-flexing Wide, Wide World, or work in a simple star chamber, like Interviewer Mike Wallace. On too rare occasions, the newsmakers themselves step before the cameras: Kefauver dueling with a faceless Frank Costello, John McClellan patiently...
...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 doughtily faced seven merciless hours of grilling in the TV glare. For U.S. consumption, Newsman Huntley stretched Outlook...
Outlook (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Chet Huntley with film and comment on current affairs. Subjects: George Kennan on disarmament; life in occupied Gaza...