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...Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club Foundation. In fact, for amateurs, the Whitneys were making fairly professional progress in their artistic careers. The Syracuse Art Museum recently selected one of his and one of hers for its permanent collection...
...objectivity. If a man says the world is round, we run out to find someone to say it is flat." Network executives are also quick to delete any portion of a news program that might offend any powerful segment of the audience. Top management, said the late Edward R. Murrow, "with a few notable exceptions has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business. But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently they have neither the time nor the competence...
...Little has changed since Murrow's speech almost a decade ago. Summing up for all those now who make their livings "dealing with producers, directors, business executives, salespeople, sponsors, agents, set designers, accountants and all others in the new, huge superstructure of human beings hovering over the frail product," CBS's Eric Sevareid was hard put to describe the rigors of putting on a news program. "The ultimate sensation," he finally decided, "is the feeling of being bitten to death by ducks...
Thus last week Bundy announced that Fred W. Friendly, 51, who quit his job as CBS News president in February,* would become an "adviser on television" for the Ford Foundation. At the same time, Friendly will become Edward R. Murrow professor of TV journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism. The new assignments will pay Friendly about half his old $75,000 CBS salary, but they "will give me a chance," he believes, "to do more for broadcasting than I could do on the inside." A worthy, or as Harvard guys...
...outlandish office politics. For devotees of television's best work, it was too bad. Fred Friendly, for all his hair-triggery, brought much high-quality programming to television, won many prizes for his documentary work (See It Now, CBS Reports), and helped to make Ed Murrow an event...