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Where We Stand: War or Peace? (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A special assessment of East-West friction around the world by news correspondents headed by Eric Sevareid...
...Source (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith talk to United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser at his palace in Cairo...
...blood had been instilled in CBS news during the war by Edward R. Murrow, some of whose proteges imitated his sepulchral tones and adopted his left-of-center emotions; the so-called "Murrow Boys" included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood and Larry Le Sueur. The Murrow style has long since come to seem stale, and the proof lies in the widespread acceptance of the far more informal Huntley-Brinkley format. But CBS's problems go even farther back. When Sig Mickelson joined CBS in 1949, he began trying to build his own news organization, and a Murrow-Mickelson rift developed...
...ERIC SEVAREID CBS LONDON...
...warm election statistics." But from the start, CBS managed to give its coverage a more exciting tone. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite read even early returns in momentous tones, and for a single, steady, unruffled and well-organized performance, he was unbeaten all night. The familiar CBS supporting crew-Eric Sevareid, Douglas Edwards, Charles Collingwood, et al., were smooth, quick and, in the case of Nancy Hanschman, pretty. Conspicuously missing: CBS Oracle Edward R. Murrow bedded down with pneumonia, possibly complicated by a slight case of disgruntlement over the you-be-Brinkley treatment he received during the conventions...