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...Award (plus $500 provided by CBS) for "courage, integrity and enterprise above and beyond the call of duty." Other awards: ¶General war reporting, A.P.'s Hal Boyle. ¶Foreign-news interpretation, the New York Times's James Reston. ¶Radio & TV interpretation, CBS's Ed Murrow. ¶Radio & TV reporting from abroad, CBS's Howard K. Smith. ¶Picture reporting, LIFE'S David Douglas Duncan...
Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow's dramatic on-the-spot recordings of the week's news...
Speaking on behalf of the Committee on the Present Danger in an interview with Edward R. Murrow, Conant said, "We do not believe that the American people wish to set apart one group of young men. The deferring of college students appears to establish a pattern in which boys who can afford to continue their education are given special privilege...
Make Your Mistakes. Murrow handles the front-page news and the editorial interpretations. But Hear It Now also has oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie...
Though the first show did little to illumine or interpret the news, it managed to move quickly and interestingly from event to event. Murrow, who hopes the first few programs will serve as a shakedown cruise, says: "It's something you have to worry over, and make your mistakes and get some informed criticism...