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President Pusey will appear on the "Meet the Press" interview program over the NBC television network on Sunday night...
Questioning him about the problems facing higher education in the United States will be: Miss Terry Ferrer, Education Editor of the New York Heraid-Tribune; Leon Pearson, NBC news commentator; Richard Wilson, Washington correspondent of the Cowles newspapers, and Lawrence Spivak, producer and regular panelist of the program...
...pontifical superficialities in his pundit's dialogue with Sevareid in CBS's presidential-election coverage last year sounded as if he had worked too much with the top of his head and not enough with his legs. As a digger and ferret, he is no match for NBC's Martin Agronsky or CBS's Richard Hottelet...
Beyond personality and technique, Murrow's persuasiveness is rooted in a prickly social conscience and a sense of mission about keeping people informed. An NBC cynic has versified: "Nobody's brow furrows like Edward R. Murrow's." Murrow's worried look is genuine. "He internalizes world events," says a friend. "They flow right through him like a stream. The fall of Britain would have been as meaningful to him as the loss of a child to one of us." This outsized sense of responsibility fills Murrow's work with conviction and sincerity. Says a colleague...
...left in news-in-depth reporting when See It Now abandoned its weekly schedule of half-hour shows two years ago for monthly hour-long shows, all three networks have tried to use something of its approach. Though such programs as NBC's Outlook, CBS's World News Roundup, ABC's Open Hearing are often well done, they suffer from a lack of See It Now's huge budget, its lavish shooting, its long experience. They also lack Edward R. Murrow...