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...Building one afternoon last week, top news executives of the ABC and NBC television networks were waiting for the man from CBS, so that they could begin discussing joint coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial, coming up next month in Israel. But CBS's man, Sig Mickelson, 47, president of CBS's news division, never showed up. Just minutes before the meeting in the RCA Building, Mickelson resigned...
...Mickelson's departure was fresh evidence of the top-level convulsions that have shaken CBS's news division since a sweeping reorganization was undertaken last December. Ordered by CBS President Frank Stanton, it put the division under a newly formed News Executive Committee headed by Attorney Richard S. Salant, 46, who has spent much of his nine years with CBS as the network's public-and Government-relations representative in Washington. Just two days before Mickelson walked out, his second in command, News Vice President John F. Day, 47, quit because the reorganization had made his position...
...called "Murrow Boys" included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood and Larry Le Sueur. The Murrow style has long since come to seem stale, and the proof lies in the widespread acceptance of the far more informal Huntley-Brinkley format. But CBS's problems go even farther back. When Sig Mickelson joined CBS in 1949, he began trying to build his own news organization, and a Murrow-Mickelson rift developed that was never repaired. In 1958, Murrow's program, See It Now, was dropped; Murrow himself, far off form, took a year's leave in 1959; since returning last...
...well-publicized stir created by Gitlin's NBC projects, his old network under CBS News President Sig Mickelson still holds the most solid ground in information programs. Among the news shows and durable holdovers...
...embarrassed by some of the positions he took in the book, e.g., a statement that "Russia looked better the longer I stayed and the more I saw.") He replaced Edward R. Murrow in 1946 as CBS's chief European correspondent, was brought to the U.S. in 1957. Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president and news manager, calls Smith "the intellectual dean of the CBS news staff...