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...ever undertaken in the field of information," Hear It Now derives from such radio news shows as THE MARCH OF TIME and NBC's Voices and Events; it has frankly borrowed from the techniques of TIME and the I Can Hear It Now record albums created by Edward Murrow and Writer Fred Friendly. With their new show, Murrow & Friendly hope to report and interpret the news with "the actual sound of history in the making...
Particles of Voices. Some of Murrow & Friendly's effects were fairly routine: the railing voices of Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Vishinsky contrasted with the country-lawyer diction of U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. But others achieved a vivid reality, e.g., the flat, unemotional American voices recorded in a command post against the background of artillery fire, and the bitter comment of a wounded marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been...
...searches out the other voices with mobile recording units. From 1½ hours of interviews in Koto, Murrow & Friendly culled a 21-second spot for Hear It Now: for other stories. CBS network stations sent mobile units up to the Canadian border and deep into the backwoods of South Carolina. Shying away from the musical "stings" that usually embellish radio documentaries, Hear It Now employs instead such topflight composers as David Diamond and Lehman Engel to supply unobtrusive incidental music...
People's Platform (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS-TV). "The Korean War," with General Robert Eichelberger, Admiral Ellis Zacharias and Correspondent Ed Murrow...
...last week the radio and television corps in Korea had grown to a platoon of 25 men, including such experienced hands as CBS's Ed Murrow and Bill Costello. Many of the later arrivals came armed with twelve-pound Minitape recorders, transcribed their stories on the spot and flew the tape to Tokyo for broadcast to the U.S. Along with such eyewitness accounts, the networks were also distilling, from their own sources, and from the regular news services, enough material for nearly 300 newscasts each week...