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...London. Edward R. Murrow, longtime P. to P. interviewer and CBS vice president from 1945 to 1947, fired an angry blast at his boss: "Dr. Stanton has finally revealed his ignorance both of news and the requirements of television production . . . Surely, Stanton must know that [Person to Person's^ cameras, lights and microphones don't just wander around the home. The producers must know who is going where and when and for how long. My conscience is clear. His seems to be bothering...
Biography of a Missile (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A careful and conscientious biography of a ballistic missile-construction, testing and actual firing. Edward R. Murrow narrates; Dr. Wernher von Braun spells out the science and technology...
...constitution of the USNSA. The student organization that was to emerge was new in name and structure, but in spirit a descendent of the student organization of the thirties, the National Student Federation of America. The President of NSFA in 1932 had been a young man named Edward R. Murrow; its last congress in 1940 had been organized by Orville Freeman, now Governor of Minnesota...
...show's high point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...