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...week's most-talked-about show was Ed Murrow's See It Now, which presented a half-hour "conversation" with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, directing genius in the making of the atom bomb and last year (TIME, July 12) denied security clearance by a 4-to-1 vote of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...show was a 30-minute digest of a 2½-hour interview. When the show went on the air the CBS switchboard at first received a "few calls of protest." Since then, the mail received at both CBS and Princeton has been heavily in Oppenheimer's favor, and Murrow reports that an additional hour-long film of the interview is being prepared for release to colleges. It will be financed by the Fund for the Republic, a division of the Ford Foundation...
Flutterings & Squeals. Even the actors had a bad time of it last week. Milton Berle, Red Buttons and Joan Blondell were all rushed to bed suffering variously from overwork, strep throats and virus infections. CBS Newsman Ed Murrow, scheduled to appear as host on NBC's Producers' Showcase in honor of the Overseas Press Club, announced that he couldn't make it because of "contractual conflict," a phrase that the industry read to mean CBS displeasure...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Actor Maurice Evans, Singer Joni James...
...mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary of Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet, and Robert Q. Lewis surprising few viewers by denying that he is a comedian. On Omnibus, Composer Leonard Bernstein analysed Beethoven...