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...Vice President Edward R. Murrow hastily stamped on the soft pedal. "It does not involve Mr. Shirer leaving the network unless he chooses to do so," he purred. "Mr. Shirer will have a new spot, but what it will be is not known...
...piece of tough, clear journalism, put together after long conferences with Murrow and his co-workers in the new documentary unit. It got some of the best-rehearsed radio acting in years (by Joseph Gotten, Luther Adler, Karl Swenson, Dan Whittaker). Sample scene...
Edward R. Murrow, Columbia's new chief of news and public-service programs, had set up a five-man task force last fall "to do nothing but documentary programs, ten or twelve a year, which will all be broadcast at peak listening hours."* In only six months CBS had spent more than $100,000 on the unit...
Able, scholarly Laurence Duggan, 41, former chief of the State Department's Division of the American Republics, had been chosen for the $15,000 job, not by his father but by a special committee (among the members: CBS Vice President Edward R. Murrow, Barnard's Dean Virginia Gildersleeve). Duggan pere attended the meetings as secretary, was chosen to notify his successor. Larry was afraid his father had railroaded his appointment. Said he: "Dad, I'd rather hear about it from someone else...
...Boss Bill Paley and his two new vice presidents, Edward R. Murrow and Davidson Taylor, conceived Operation Crossroads while chinning about their European wartime experiences. They assigned the project to a 32-year-old producer, Robert Lewis Shayon (rhymes with play-on). To find what the nation was thinking, CBS began a public-opinion survey last December. Shayon talked with scientists, military experts, Government leaders. Then he sponged up everything he could about atomic energy...