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Symptomatic of the times was the announcement a few days ago by the able radio commentator, William L. Shirer, that he was being replaced on his Sunday news program. Shirer, charging that he was being "gagged" because of his liberal views, has brought a most serious accusation before the nation. If his statement may be accepted as true, his case is the latest in the postwar attempt to mould American public opinion into a safe right-of-center form...
Aside from that involved in his charges, only one reason could be a legitimate basis for the dropping of Shirer by his sponsor or the Columbia Broadcasting System. The action would be justified if his listening audience were insufficient to warrant his continuance. But this fact does not enter into the picture, inasmuch as his latest Hooper rating was the highest of any CBS program during the Sunday day-time schedule. If, therefore, it can be assumed that any commercial motive for Shirer's dismissal was ruled out, the only possible reason is the one in his accusation: the sponsor...
...goal of the U.N." in five letters); and a four-page picture sequence showing U.N. delegates shaking hands and grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...
...panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when they went to complain about a powdered-egg breakfast and found the German staff eating steak...
...Mutual now has Marjorie and Royal Arch Gunnison, the husband-&-wife team who covered the Orient for the Christian Science Monitor, to chitchat the news on a show called Mr. & Mrs. Reporter (1 p.m., E.W.T.). ABC signed up the aging wonder boy Orson Welles. who wants to talk about Shirer's kind of subjects, and sound like Alexander Woollcott...