TV Guide (September 25, 1954)

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If you like some¬ thing to sink your teeth into in your TV diet—ideas, as well as amusement —there’s more than meringue on TV’s bill of fare this season. Solid substance, attractively served, will be dished up by new and old shows stressing news, science, re¬ ligion and “culture.” No matter how you vote, you’ll cast a pro-TV ballot this fall. Beginning next week, Congressional, guberna¬ torial and local election campaigns will get all-out TV coverage on every network from smoke-filled-room spe¬ cialists. And wherever you live, the climax of the political drama can come to your living room on Nov. 2. Post-election, TV may invade the halls of Congress. A new public affairs show, Eye on the World, is making its debut on CBS, to probe for the stories behind each week’s top news stories. Bob Trout is the narrator. Through Comment, on Sunday af¬ ternoons, NBC will let you listen in on newsmen rehashing, just among Both of Edward R. Murrow’s news'- making shows, the documentary-style See It Now and the less solemn Per¬ son to Person, return to CBS, which also has another holdover, Man of the Week. Among the interpretive reporters, both Elmer Davis and Martin Agron- sky are back. American Forum of the Air is resuming its Sunday explora¬ tions into the American way of life, and NBC retains Lawrence Spivak’s Meet the Press, where some of the Nation’s biggest headlines are hatched. And then, too, there will be Eric Sev- areid’s Sunday news resume and an¬ alysis, American Week. Another NBC news panel, Youth Wants to Know, will continue to dem¬ onstrate that, when pressed, the American teen-ager can ask more penetrating, more provocative (and sometimes more embarrassing) ques¬ tions than his elders. CBS, too, will have its own platform for youthful expression and opinion, Youth Takes a Stand, and ABC continues its own similar entry, Junior Press Conference. On the double-dome level, there is CULTURAL Widening Horizons THE SEASON INCLUDES PROGRAMS FOR THE IDEA-MINDED, TOO themselves, the week’s big news. On the straight news level, Douglas Edwards, John Cameron Swayze and John Daly continue their nightly news roundups. Daly also is resuming his Open Hearing, a calm, dispassionate review of controversial news stories. Dave Garroway’s Today continues, of course, as does The Morning Show, (with more emphasis on entertain¬ ment). Walter Winchell is back in his Sunday night spot and Drew Pearson is still syndicating his filmed exposes. Dr. Frank Baxter, the University of Southern California professor, whose Shakespearean lectures on TV last summer won wide popularity and a CBS contract for a new Sunday liter¬ ary series, Now and Then. The same network, in The Search, will report on the accomplishments of 26 U.S. universities. Two celebrated-figures in the Amer¬ ican arts, poet Robert Frost and paint¬ er Grandma Moses, are among the guests who appear on NBC’s quarter- 22