Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow's Report on Cigarettes and Lung Cancer...
Harry Truman fussed about what was to be said. Bess Truman fussed about what was to be seen. But daughter Margaret prevailed. Last week, with Ed Murrow covering the British elections, Margaret Truman took over his CBS-TV Person to Person show in Manhattan, and from that distance visited her parents and her home in Independence...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Margaret Truman, substituting for Ed Murrow, interviews Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman from their home in Independence...
...Person to Person, Ed Murrow served up another entertaining mixture of eggheads and rough diamonds. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his mannered British wife, Diana, were full of intellectual pleasantries and happy memories of nights at Windsor Castle playing command performances for the royal family; next came earthy Rocky Graziano, his pretty wife and two shy children. An ex-delinquent, ex-world champion and, presently, a TV actor, Rocky had a fistful of forceful, if ungrammatical, opinions on teen-agers ("they oughta be good"), TV performing ("my director says he'll fire me if I ever turn into an actor...
...smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the three volumes of I Can Hear It Now . . . (Columbia; $5.95 each), Edward R. Murrow's playback of headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk at it. Now the counters offer everything from Laugh of the Party to Rail Dynamics and Parakeet...