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Eyewitness to History. A weekly half-hour designed to fill one of the more obvious gaps in TV news coverage. While TV can be on the air quickly with late news, and while it has shown its ability to summarize longstanding problems (as in Murrow's See It Now), TV in general has often failed to handle a big current event with analytic depth. To meet that need, Eyewitness will cover a major news story of each week, is pledged to change its story within hours of air time if necessary. So far the show has been effective...
...material that CBS crews had gone to Africa to get. As mpressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for the Charlotte, N.C. News before CBS hired him. A deep-voiced Carolina Cronkite with more than a little Murrow in his bones, he has one of those low-ratchet, radioactive voices that sound like a roulette wheel stopping...
...ratings by NBC at Los Angeles, CBS pulled out all stops to recoup in Chicago. Its oracles tried to capture some of the colloquial ease that made NBC's Huntley and Brinkley outstanding; when President Eisenhower entered the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, his face spattered with confetti, Ed Murrow observed: "It looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare...
...once had its own answer to the problem and called it Ed Murrow. During long, dull stretches, Murrow and any number of imitators would deliver what amounted to a Politics I course as taught at Delphi. But last week most of the students cut the course. Eyes raking remote high 'corners at the broadcasting booth, head cocked into a single earphone, Murrow gave the impression that he was listening more to the rulings of the Supreme Chairman than to the conversation of his fluent, competent colleague, Walter Cronkite. Murrow is still television's big news name...
...Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley, the NBC forces are pledged to use all sorts of cameras, right down to hand-held "creepie-peepies." Battling them every step of the way for nomination as the TViewers' choice will be the CBS group led by Walter Cronkite and Ed Murrow, and the ABC unit under John Daly...