Word: schorr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camp is made up of all the hotels, clubs, schools and residential areas that Jews find "restricted." To Jewish George Hurst, raised on the lower East Side by pathologically fearful Aunt Tessie, the goyim are a barbarous yet crafty race who corrupt whatever they touch. His best friend, Danny Schorr, begins palling around with gentiles and soon he has got into trouble with the police, changed his name to Shaw and become the most triple-dyed villain since East Lynne. And one of his schoolmates, pretty Dora Dienst. listens to the. siren song with the seemingly inevitable result: she becomes...
...selected written questions on See It Now (TIME, Jan. 7), Khrushchev played by U.S. ground rules, asked in advance only for what fields the questions would cover. Producer Ted Ayers replied so broadly that he left a free hand to his panel, Moderator Stuart Novins and Moscow Correspondents Daniel Schorr of CBS and B. J. Cutler of the New York Herald Tribune...
...Poland, 1957," an engrossing, hour-long documentary on the Communist satellite since it gained a limited amount of freedom 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...
Even so, reports CBS News Correspondent Daniel Schorr, just back from four months in the Soviet Union, television is "booming," and Russia now ranks third in number of TV sets, behind the U.S. and Great Britain. Moscow itself has 700,000 sets, and antennas bristle not only from modern apartment buildings but even over the sagging wooden huts in the city's outskirts. Red workers can afford to buy sets because-though salaries are low -all adult members of a family usually have jobs, and some money can be saved because rents are cheap and medical and many educational...
Telecasts begin at 7 p.m., with a 20-minute children's program featuring a plump woman in a peasant dress who sits in a chair telling a fairy story. Despite the dull camerawork, says Schorr, "she was a good actress and told the story warmly and simply." Next, in Schorr's monitoring, came an excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes...