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...week into its second decade, chances were that some of the best of such moments in the new season would come from a dark, high-domed man with a hangdog look, an apocalyptic voice and a cachet as plain as his inevitable cigarette. His name: Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow...
Many have come and many have fallen in TV's growth to immature maturity, but CBS's Ed Murrow, 49, marches on as TV's top journalist. Six years after his See It Now pioneered the technique for capturing the sights and sounds, persons and events that shape the news, it is unchallenged by any newer or better technique for exploiting TV's potential or overcoming its shortcomings. The combination of brains, integrity, attractiveness and showmanship that makes him such an effective journalist also establishes Murrow, in his role of star on the trivial but popular...
...narrator, Ed Murrow offered two reasons for Welles's chilling success: 1) the recent concern over Munich had badly spooked the U.S. public and 2), Halloween merely served to intensify man's "instinctive terror of the great unknown...
...Murrow also returned last week for his fifth season as the reassuring Peeping Tom of Person to Person. It was perhaps TV's best kiddie show yet. At the Bob Kennedys' 200-year-old estate in McLean, Va., young (2) son Dave did the scene-stealing by bawling obligingly all the way through Ed's conversation with the four other Kennedy youngsters. And in the show's other half, CBS's electronic gremlins blacked out some of mournful Hollywood Singer Julie London's more breathless moments while projecting Julie's seven-year...
Look Here! brings NBC's bowstringtaut Martin Agronsky, 42, into what he calls "the tremendously rich area between Mike Wallace and Ed Murrow." In the paneled, high-ceilinged office of John Foster Dulles, Agronsky tested his new concept-"penetrating the wellsprings of character"-to good effect. By exploring areas that the news panel shows had never found cause to enter, Agronsky made a refreshing switch on the usual Dulles interview. (Sample questions: What does a man feel when he faces a decision that might mean the difference between peace and war? How do you reconcile the doctrine of massive...