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...airwaves crackled with the promise of choice entertainment; but, as usual, the promise was mostly unfulfilled. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith returned from a brief trip to Russia and checked in with Ed Murrow and See It Now (CBS-TV). Ex-Newshen Smith reported little that was new, concluded: "The Soviet leaders smile only with their faces-never with their hearts; the little people smile with their hearts-when they get a chance to do so." Historian Arnold Toynbee showed up on the usually exhilarating radio show Conversation (NBC) to discuss "My Favorite Era," but offered nothing...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Lillian Gish and Robert Q. Lewis...
...news, CBS usually tops NBC-but last week the networks divided honors. On CBS, Commentator Ed Murrow and Political Analyst Sam Lubell made the most sense as the confusing election returns mounted. But NBC scored with such new techniques as the split screen that let four reporters from as many cities talk to each other (and the viewers) at the same time. In a post-midnight phone call, Vice President Richard Nixon praised NBC for "objective reporting" and for "the finest election coverage I have ever seen...
...Murrow is unquestionably the only TV news analyst to have a U.S. Senator for a foreign correspondent. The Senator: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith who, before she turned to politics, worked on the Skowhegan (Me.) Independent Reporter. When he learned last month that Senator Smith planned a European tour after her reelection, Murrow asked if he might send along a CBS camera crew. She agreed, and has already dispatched chatty filmed interviews for Murrow's See It Now with such personalities as Anthony Eden. Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge and Nye Bevan ("Mr. Bevan . . . what are your principal impressions...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Clarinetist Benny Goodman...