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...Commentator, but the script is better than many and unique in coming to grips with a problem of backstage TV at the topmost level. Secondari's commentator creates a crisis by blasting a demagogic Congressman. The network backs him up (as CBS backed up Edward R. Murrow in his celebrated 1954 editorial against Joe McCarthy). But in the end-after speeches deriding the network board of directors as "careful coupon clippers'' and the advertising agencies as "prudent dispensers of panaceas and happy endings"-the commentator gets fired. The viewer is left to judge between the newscaster...
...from Russia last year. Occasionally, the brisk pace was slowed to a walk, as when Poland's brooding, egg-bald Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz deadpanned noncommittal answers to Correspondent Daniel Schorr's questions. But for the most part the pictures, the reporting, and the narration by Edward R. Murrow succeeded in projecting their intended impression of "a nation on a tightrope," still unsure about its new status. "The typical Polish gesture," summed up Reporter Schorr, "is a shrug...
Clifton Fadiman should have given some credit for the growth of Televenglish [March 11] to Ed Murrow's Person to Person program. Most of the "persons" on his shows never fail to begin a statement without "Assa maddera fack...
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...boys and answers all of Roberta's correspondence from their Florida home. She is working hard because, she says, "I'd like to pay off the debts and get something put aside." Roberta proved such a hit with women viewers when she appeared recently on Ed Murrow's Person to Person that there is talk of signing her for a daily women's show on TV. But if that does not work out, she will be content to go on singing in the clubs, where she is much in demand. Apparently, in a world of perennially...