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Person to Person: Professionally mute Harpo Marx talked so freely before air time that Host Ed Murrow playfully opened the show with: "I hope it's not your intention to monopolize the conversation this evening." It was not. On the air, Harpo ogled the camera with idiot grins and adroit grimaces, whistled replies between his fingers, blew smoke bubbles at Murrow and sadly plucked at his harp. But, in the lifelong tradition of "inviolable mutism." he was noisily silent. Tumbling over the furniture in his Palm Springs home, fright-wigged Harpo was as much a problem to chatty...
...futuristic coveralls, Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who bulled through the first atom-powered submarine over strong Navy opposition, and TV Newsman Edward R. Murrow (TIME, Sept. 30) stood on a bridge spanning a big uranium power reactor in Shippingport, Pa. (see BUSINESS), which will soon start operation and become a nuclear hero on a Murrow show next week...
After reading all that ballyhoo, I still don't like Murrow or his programs...
...Murrow's look, the look of an intelligent man of good will who has encountered too little cause for joy and too much for gloom-if this look can be described as "hangdog," what a ragtag pack of mongrels inhabits our world today...
...close your story on Edward R. Murrow with the comment that TV journalism as a whole is not much good despite its Kcasional brilliance. Please do not be too lard on it. To really appreciate TV network-news shows-and TIME-a person must live in a provincial town like San Antonio. Were it not for TV and radio, we would have to wait a week to learn anything about events other than who shot whom in what tavern...