Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsman, Edward R. Murrow, have long enjoyed a reputation as front runners in their field. Last week, while shining in one form of TV journalism (see below), they took a back seat in reporting the news. When the news was flashed shortly after 10:48 p.m., E.S.T., that the U.S. had launched its first earth satellite, CBS had Murrow himself on camera, chatting with Actor Cyril Ritchard on Person to Person about such weighty questions as "What is the most important thing in the world to you?" Rival NBC, which was luckily televising a discussion of "Missiles...
Person to Person: Professionally mute Harpo Marx talked so freely before air time that Host Ed Murrow playfully opened the show with: "I hope it's not your intention to monopolize the conversation this evening." It was not. On the air, Harpo ogled the camera with idiot grins and adroit grimaces, whistled replies between his fingers, blew smoke bubbles at Murrow and sadly plucked at his harp. But, in the lifelong tradition of "inviolable mutism." he was noisily silent. Tumbling over the furniture in his Palm Springs home, fright-wigged Harpo was as much a problem to chatty...
...Murrow. Trying to give viewers an insight into Harpo's more serious side, she explained: "Actually he is a very quiet man, philosophical. He uses his head." Behind her back, the camera caught 64-year-old Harpo standing on his head in the middle of the room...
...futuristic coveralls, Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who bulled through the first atom-powered submarine over strong Navy opposition, and TV Newsman Edward R. Murrow (TIME, Sept. 30) stood on a bridge spanning a big uranium power reactor in Shippingport, Pa. (see BUSINESS), which will soon start operation and become a nuclear hero on a Murrow show next week...
...close your story on Edward R. Murrow with the comment that TV journalism as a whole is not much good despite its Kcasional brilliance. Please do not be too lard on it. To really appreciate TV network-news shows-and TIME-a person must live in a provincial town like San Antonio. Were it not for TV and radio, we would have to wait a week to learn anything about events other than who shot whom in what tavern...