Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow interviews Jesse Owens, Leonard Bernstein...
...breaks into the Spectacular field with 14 90-minute shows, starting next month with a Judy Garland production, to be followed by three Noel Coward shows, two musical dramas starring Bing Crosby. Ed Murrow's See It Now will include TV "profiles" of New York and Paris and a camera's report on Africa. Omnibus goes musical with Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness...
...companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports to 25% of the week's programming. But arrangements have already been made to acquaint Britons with I Love Lucy (scheduled to compete with BBC's prize variety hour, The Ted Ray Show), Dragnet, Hopalong Cassidy, Ed Murrow's Person to Person, and Billy Graham. Last fortnight the contracts were signed for the import of Liberace, complete with candelabra and toothy smile. But many of the home-grown products will bear a resemblance to U.S. shows. Example: Sunday Night at the Palladium, featuring such stars as Gracie...
...redeemed itself in the fact field. On See It Now (Tues. 10:30 p.m. E.D.T.), Reporter Ed Murrow turned the TV camera on Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary of the United Nations. The camera focused on a schoolroom in Abilene, Kans. Dr. Bunche was at the head of the class. He spoke simply and earnestly to his youthful listeners, as he would to intellectual equals, and made out an eloquent case for the U.N., in whose halls "every man of whatever race, color or religion holds his head equally high." Dr. Bunche was a credit...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Bob Hope...