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...kept constant throughout the Club's history. One of these was the decision to have women play women's roles. This caused "distinct opposition at the outset and wavering in the fold," Baker remarked several years later, but the members have always stuck to the original decision. H. V. Kaltenborn '09, a charter member and the first treasurer of the Club, remembered that at the time "I was very happy they decided to be sensible" and adopt this policy. "There was a very snobbish attitude toward Radcliffe then," he confided. "It wasn't considered quite the thing...
...able but monotonous panel of experts: Author Quincy (The World We Lost) Howe, Erwin Canham (Christian Science Monitor) and Ernest Lindley (Newsweek). CBS's Sevareid-Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry. The NBC tète-à-tètes were again larded with the deadpan humor of Commentator David Brinkley. Between conventions, ABC's baggy-eyed John Daly squeezed in a Manhattan...
...speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across H. V. Kaltenborn's face as he watched Harry Truman (on film) impersonate Kaltenborn's clipped commentary in the 1948 elections (later, at Perle Mesta's wingding, Kaltenborn did an impersonation of Truman impersonating Kaltenborn...
...Committee, organized in 1954, has investigated the Council's problems--from its finances to its standing in the University community. Since its founding, the group, including former debators H.V. Kaltenborn '09, Clarence B. Randall '12, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of Government, emeritus, and A. Chester Hanford '17, Professor of Government and former Dean of the College, has raised $4,400 to endow the Council's activities...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews H. V. Kaltenborn and Actress Carol Channing...