Word: sevareid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news programming grew in stature last week with the addition of two shows by two first-rate newsmen-John Daly and Eric Sevareid...
...American Week (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS) was a more uneven offering. Eric Sevareid started in major-league fashion with diagrammed displays of what would happen to big cities of the U.S. if they were targets of the H-bomb, and followed with filmed quotes from Physicist Ralph Lapp ("Let's have the facts given to the public") and ex-Diplomat George Kennan. But anticlimax followed with a "human interest" look at baseball and a too-long digression into the progress of the Wisconsin movement to vote the recall of Senator McCarthy. Sevareid announced that "I expect to use some...
...American Week (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). News series, with Eric Sevareid...
...between are analysts like CBS's Eric Sevareid, a measured, calm-voiced reporter who is hard-put to give both sides of every question in his allotted 5 minutes; NBC's Morgan Beatty, who alternates reading the minds of the Politburo with such "colorful" items as Hollywood's reporting an increased G.I. demand for pinup girls; and Mutual's Frank Edwards, who claims to have tipped his listeners in advance to the B-29 bombing on the Naktong front and usually sounds willing to punch anyone who disagrees with...