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This week, as the Federal Civil Defense Administration plan for A-day shaped up, it was clear that Godfrey and Murrow will have help in the supply of friendly and reassuring voices in the event of disaster. Other radio-TV personalities are slated to spell Godfrey and Murrow over a nationwide network. Well-known regional stars are scheduled to take over various statewide hookups; metropolitan areas will be told what is happening and what they should do by local disk jockeys and announcers...
Sweetness & Light. At his final presidential press conference-the 324th since he took office-Truman was full of bounce and impishness. That evening, in a farewell radio-TV speech to the nation, Harry Truman reverted briefly to the humility of his early days in office. Said he: "When Franklin Roosevelt died, I felt there must be a million men better qualified than I to take up the presidential task. But the work was mine to do, and I had to do it. I have tried to give it everything that was in me." Characteristically, he also soared to new heights...
...feud between the New York Post and Columnist Walter Winchell last week moved from the news columns into the courts. The Post and Editor James A. Wechsler filed libel suits for $1,525,000 against Winchell and the Hearst Corp., his radio-TV sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), and American Broadcasting Co. Said the Post: in his columns and on his radio-TV programs, Winchell has been engaged in "journalistic gangsterism . . . [He has] spread the impression that the Post and its editors are disloyal to the United States and support and defend the Communist Party and C.P. figures convicted of conspiracy...
Banking & Currency. Homer Capehart, the wealthy radio-TV manufacturer from Indiana, a strong conservative...
Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee charged yesterday that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy made "at least 18 false statements, distortions, or quotations wrenched from context" in his radio-TV attack on Governor Adlai E. Stevenson last week...