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REVIEWS * The American Week * PROGRAM OF THE WEEK If The American Week sounds like a weekly roundup of news events with faint overtones of editorializing, that’s exactly what it is. Done in the now-familiar commentator-to-TV- monitor technique inaugurated by Ed Murrow’s See It Now, this CBS Sun¬ day afternoon show uses a good deal of film footage and a minimum of talk. Naturally, it is impossible to cover a full week’s news in less than half an hour. It is also equally impossible to please everyone, but only the hy¬ percritical could carp at CBS’ weekly choices. Presiding over the show is Eric Seva- reid, an old Murrow hand and pos¬ sibly the only TV commentator able to keep editorial inflections complete¬ ly out of both his voice and his face. He speaks slowly, calmly and almost dispiritedly as he ranges over the world, from Formosa to a social wel¬ fare center to a baseball park to Mar¬ ilyn Monroe. Any man who can main¬ tain a wholly objective voice-level in speaking of Marilyn Monroe ob¬ viously is a candidate for the Supreme Court. Sevareid, who presumably has an important say about what goes into the show, picks his subjects with an editor’s eye to variety, if not always brevity. But if he tends to be overly long with some of his subjects, he Eric Sevareid: calm despite M. Monroe. rarely allows them to become boring. With an eye to timeliness, he re¬ cently presented considerable film on Chiang’s Nationalist army training on Formosa. Another show gave a grimly depressing film report on the Dust Bowl conditions of Southwestern U.S. He also has covered, in some detail, the welfare work being done for our senior citizens—one of whom, Harry Truman, was shown a week later in Washington doing a little political welfare work of his own. The American Week is proof that TV is learning to use its new dimen¬ sion for vivid news reporting.— D.J. 18