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...networks' highly competitive efforts to bag big names for TV portraits, CBS gets most of the major beats, e.g., Ed Murrow's interviews with Tito and Chou Enlai, Face the Nation's with Khrushchev. Last week NBC was in hot pursuit of its rival's lead. Hardly before the 121-gun salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba...
...Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs" in science. After six years on TV, Lucy and Desi are taking refuge in five hour-long musical comedies, and Studio One begins its ninth year with a report on Orson Welles's 1938 Martian "invasion," with Ed Murrow narrating. Murrow's See It Now will include reports on Marian Anderson's upcoming tour of the Orient, the statehood problem of Alaska and Hawaii, and the rebirth of German industry. Songbird Patti Page will be involved in "a new TV concept" called The Big Record, a guest...
Surely Edward R. Murrow's reflection [TIME, July 15], "If television and radio are to be used to entertain all of the people all of the time, we have come perilously close to discovering the real opiate of the people," is coincidental to Carl Sandburg's statement [TIME, June 17], "When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people...
...Pantomime Quiz be far behind?" He was speaking of Mike Stokey's ten-year-old TV show, the undisputed dean of summer replacements, which early this month, as dependable as lightning bugs, made its annual return to network TV. As in last summer, Pantomime Quiz is replacing Ed Murrow's Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS), and its frenetic actors will gambol and gyrate through the dog days until Murrow's return on Sept. 13. "In the winter," says Mike Stokey, "I hibernate...
...build its vitality and prestige, said Murrow, is for the networks and stations to use their neglected right to editorialize. Last week, in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, Murrow's boss, CBS President Frank Stanton, also upheld the right of broadcasters to editorialize, but stressed how thorny a right it is. TV, complained Stanton, lacks the tradition and experience of the press in editorializing; moreover, "it would be most difficult [for networks] to take editorial positions acceptable to all our affiliated stations." Commentator Murrow had a more succinct explanation for the failure of broadcasters...