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...unfair to Democrats. But his wail of "sabotage" against CBS was a case of biting off the hand that had been feeding him. CBS news coverage has been more than friendly to Butler's cause, and the punditing of its top commentators, Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, has been sharply slanted toward the Democratic side. It was CBS that, out of its own pocket, set up hourlong, closed-circuit telecasts last month so that Butler and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall could give instructions to delegates to both conventions. CBS also made a kinescope of Keynoter Frank Clement...
...Sunday News (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). New program, with Eric Sevareid...
Chief CBS Washington Correspondent ERIC SEVAREID: TV and newsreel film of [Ike's] weekly news conference will give the people a more intimate understanding of what goes on, but not by any means a complete understanding. For the White House news secretary continues to sit as editor of what may be seen and heard later. He edits the sound tape and he edits the film. The news secretary works for the President, not for the information media, and it would be too much to expect for him to release those segments of presidential speech in which the Chief Executive...
...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...