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...than the one from the tabloids to the Times and weirder than anything in between. It echoes with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance. The news comes by short wave and on tape, the newsmen in snazzy ties and boutonnieres...
...with art, letters and ideas, they will plunge into such matters with the same gusto they show in business, if they get the chance to do so without embarrassment. This summer Paepcke expects to play host to USIA Boss Arthur Larson, Boston & Maine President Patrick McGinnis, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, and a host of presidents and heirs apparent from some of the nation's largest companies. As for the 225 executives who have already attended Aspen, they consider the institute their second alma mater. Says Steelman Clarence Randall: "I am still in a very...
...fictitious company called Amalgamated Broadcasting, but there are only three TV networks in the U.S., and perhaps it was unrealistic to expect any of them to broadcast such lines or dramatize such a situation. Last week CBS, which had canceled a broadcast by its own Analyst Eric Sevareid for editorializing (TIME, Feb. 25), canceled the scheduled performance of The Commentator on next week's Studio...
Actually, Sevareid's rejected script was much gentler than many others that CBS has aired out of his own mouth. In June 1953 he said: "The country is not in danger of government by fascists or Communists; it's in danger of government by stuffed shirts." During the Truman Administration, CBS even permitted Sevareid the editorial "We." He said: "We think the President has been basically right on foreign policy, including his handling of the Korean war, but we think he's run out of gas on domestic affairs...
Said a perturbed Sevareid: "What is analysis and what is opinion or editorializing? Possibly the differences can never be resolved." His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong. The Association of Radio-TV News Analysts protested: "Every competent news analyst is bound to express editorial opinion. He does so in selecting topics, in emphasizing their relative importance, and in the tone of voice he uses ... It is hard to understand why CBS still pretends to follow an impossible policy which its news analysts...