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Tuesday, November 14 WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Since his TV conversation with Eric Sevareid just two months ago, Eric Hoffer's salty comments on the contemporary scene have been quoted by the President and the man on the street alike. Tonight, a rebroadcast of "Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind...
...adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes a "flypaper memory" to Scammon, says, "he's always startling you by coming up with the vote in some borough in England in 1872." His mastery of U.S. statistics is even more phenomenal. Scammon can recite from memory the political, social, economic...
Peering dimly into the future of the Middle East, CBS News Analyst Eric Sevareid seemed to see a mirror image of what was actually happening. "Many years of diplomacy and spending," he mourned, "were going down the drain," since Russia would replace the U.S. as the dominant influence in the Middle East. NBC's David Brinkley doubted that Russia would do so well. "The U.S.," he said, "gave Israel no help, which it did not need, and the Russians gave the Arab countries no help, which they did need...
...Eric Sevareid, D.LIT., CBS newsman...
...successor, said USIA director Leonard Marks, will be from the same bracket-"someone who has been earning in excess of $75,000 in broadcasting and is an outstanding newsman known throughout the nation." Marks's coyness produced inevitable speculation that he might mean CBS's Eric Sevareid or Charles Collingwood, NBC's Nancy Dickerson or ABC's Howard K. Smith. Likeliest choice, however, is John Charles Daly, 53, onetime ABC vice president for news and currently the suave moderator of CBS's What's My Line? A son-in-law of Chief Justice Earl...