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...Murrow opened a 90-minute See It Now documentary on automation, he said: "Several people have suggested to us that it's a little too heavy for a Sunday afternoon in June." It was perhaps a half hour longer than it had to be, but the skilled See It Now team made a formidable assignment seem like easy going. They showed not only the newly arrived marvels of "an age when the buttons push themselves" but also "the frustration of displaced workers and the cool, four-day-week visions of scientists, labor leaders and industrialists. The machines alone made...
...Omnibus and Wide Wide World, which NBC will alternate weekly at a time overlapping Performer Crosby's appearances for CBS? "That hadn't occurred to me," says Crosby. "I'd hate to miss Omnibus, but maybe I could see it once a month when Ed Murrow will have our time on CBS." How will Crosby's readers get critical coverage of Seven Lively Arts, one of the new season's major shows? Well, Crosby thinks he may get somebody like the Herald Tribune's Drama Critic Walter Kerr to review...
...show opened with the familiarly quiet voice: "This is Ed Murrow. Listen to an informer now in hiding, afraid he will be found and killed." With that, CBS radio last week told in the bone-chilling words of its participants The Galíndez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror. The skillfully fleshed-out version of the story, first revealed by TIME and LIFE, made an impressive documentary-in-sound-so impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque...
There is really not a great deal that need be said about this film. From the introduction, delivered by the eversonorous Edward R. Murrow, until the end, which comes three hours later, the picture is a complete joy to watch. It is not great drama or high comedy, nor does it pretend to be. It just combines all the atractions of a spectacular travelogue with the entertainment of a fine variety show, and serves them up by means of a new motion picture process known as Todd-AO. And that, it should be understood, is no mean feat...
...agency that produced the ad. Adman Howard Becker modestly disclaimed any special talent for creating the likeness of a radio pundit. Said he: "It's simple, really. If you speak in a portentous voice, write copy in short, terse style, make everything sound important, you sound like Murrow-no matter...