Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Into one hour last week, CBS tried to pack all the news of the previous seven days. Listeners to Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m.) heard "drama for the ear" that originated in the trampled snow of North Korea, the drapery-hung walls of Lake Success and on the quarter-deck of the battleship Missouri...
Ballyhooed by CBS as "the biggest project ever undertaken in the field of information," Hear It Now derives from such radio news shows as THE MARCH OF TIME and NBC's Voices and Events; it has frankly borrowed from the techniques of TIME and the I Can Hear It Now record albums created by Edward Murrow and Writer Fred Friendly. With their new show, Murrow & Friendly hope to report and interpret the news with "the actual sound of history in the making...
...CBS searches out the other voices with mobile recording units. From 1½ hours of interviews in Koto, Murrow & Friendly culled a 21-second spot for Hear It Now: for other stories. CBS network stations sent mobile units up to the Canadian border and deep into the backwoods of South Carolina. Shying away from the musical "stings" that usually embellish radio documentaries, Hear It Now employs instead such topflight composers as David Diamond and Lehman Engel to supply unobtrusive incidental music...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Iris Mann in Alice in Wonderland...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). First part of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...