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literature and because his sister had refused Mrs George T. Lewis, the
political to answer questions about her convictions.
News papers reported the fact that he had visited his
family only once a year, but there was no great
blic interest in the case.
Then Edward R. Murrow, the American broadcaster
and television interviewer, devoted the whole of one! of his programmes to the story.
Withhi 24 hours the American The still treasures one of these It reads: "I don't think Secretary of Air revived more belt. than 5,000 relegams supportint Munis ders iz because the
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In the early days of World War 11. hi excellent brondeustá from London bad aumeau cablu indus new in American public In 1854, he became at tand bein overnight for his ation inthetment of Senator Melfartoy at his methods.
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Ed, Murrow
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Be city's police have been starred into their biggest anti- vice campaign in years,
The world's most influential radio and television reporter was born on April 25, 1908. the third son of a small tenant farmer in North Carolla. Je 118 named Egbert Roscor Murrow.
Egbert the never Sked the name) had his first job at the age of 15, working in a logging Al 27. he became the Cohibla Biondensing System's Director of Taika and Education At 29, he was semi to Lonelut as the Network's Director.
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Murrow was rewarded, for King 1 work to Bellafn. George VI 'awarded him the O.B.E. and hile employers gave 1 Ginner party-with 1,000 Furstein bis honour.
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woman who went to gaol because she thinks big, cars and trucks are “pick- ing on" little sportscars. says she is going to fight for legislation to make it safer for the diminutive yehicles.
And she hopes to make it
night, because "with national there and more small cars com- the road every day, this ing n
a national problem," "Nobody gives the little sports-i cars a break,' she completed. What chance does a little car have again a 10-ton truck."
The main problem, says Mis Lewis, I that the drivers in trucks often and bigger cars can't see the little ens because jot inadequate rear view mirrosa
und
windshiel insufrient
-Back in America, Marrow visibility. made his name on television She hopes she can convince with his ambitious programine safely groups. legislators and unis properlips auto manufacturers to "See it Now"
he delivered
domething about it. devastating oftack on McCarthy,
brave move which won him millors of admirers and some powerful enemies
Formidable
Murrow became recognised as the Senator's most formidable exponent and four McCarthy men were assigned to investigate his background.
$20 Fine
First, however, she wants to with the get herself squared law.
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Mrs Lewis, the wife of University of Miami professor and an ex-school teacher ber- elf, served five days in the Coral Gables
City
yo 1ust week rather
$20 than pay a fine after her small fat had an accident with a big oll truck.
She claims the truck backed into her because the driver The truck couldn't see her. driver said Mrs Lewis ran into Els United. The judge accepted
version.
All they could discover was 11 he hat! oner been an sidant director of an interna- hedal educational association which arranged exchanges of
the students, between States and all other rou!ries- including Russia.
Murrow's series of topleal investigations was followed an ryer more ambitious pro- "Person to Person," gramine, in which he interviewed his erlehrllies by sliting in the studio and eliatting to them as they walked or lounged about their own homes, It took the C... six months to perfect this technique.
After she went to gaol, a man who claimed to be a witness to the accident showed up and cor- tahorated Mrs Lewis' version of the recident.
But the judge said it was too ate and he refused to grant her a new trial.
When she came out of her un Saturday night, Mrs cell Lewis was hopping; mad.
"Eve instructed my attorney to appeal this to the ereuit court and higher if necessar" Mrs Lewis snapped.
Murrow hag made numerous trips abroad. He travelled 6,000 miles 48 hours to interview My Nehru, visited Israel during the Suez crisis, had a half-hour! interview with Mr Magmillan in ¦ girls, is not for herself but the London,
High Salary
to
His Fatest series, "The Small World."
Introducet Was American vi wers last Octòber. Here be linka some of the greatest figures of our time in ab intercontinental linolt-up.
Today Ex Murrow is among the 10 highest salaried men in the United States, carning more Than 300,000 dollars a year, mor wwon than the chairman of the C.D.S. board.
At ist. Murrew had no parti- cular accions for Englund, but Tali, dark, and quietly hand- the war saw him develop into some, he dresses soberly, moltes Yankee John Buil. Britain's heavily, and workta extremely envise berrime his cause and he teng hours. He likes to spend won fume in the 1940s for his hitle spare-time on his dairy stirring reports of the London farm outside New York. Hitz.
Every night he dramatically opened his broadcast with the words: "This....is London, Then, in his graphic, wares, and slightly staccato voice, he would tel: millions of Americans about the horror and herol: m to be the bomb-shattered capital,
Faith In Britain
Murrow never wavered in his faith in Britain and during 1940 the C.B.S. received hundreds of letters oftestng that their London reporter was in the pay of the British Government,
Murrow denies that he han aty politie affiliations and insists on
called hi~ _ being porter, not a commentator.
Sincere Manner
The
secret of his unrivalled success on television? It is due chiefly to his sincere, reinxed mater, and his ability to create an atmosphere of asy intimacy, whether he be Interviewing the Amerten President ordinary G.1.
or
His Technique, he says, is lo
"I am keep out of the picture,
to get between the subject and the viewer og little as possible," -Central Press,
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AN cld schoolmaster of mine
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manner of a boxing or football match.
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haven't given up yet. don't like the idea of having this blotch on my record.”
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Radiomen Play Law Officers In "Ferry”
KENDALL
BRAWLS;
WALLACE
OUSTS
JURGENS
BY ANDREW SLÓAN
Two
broad- Hongkong casters, Nick Kendall and John Wallace, are playing the part of Police Inspec tors in the film, "Ferry to Hongkong."
One of the big scenes which has just been completed at the Deep Water Bay studies where the J. Arthur Kank team is bar- bring indoor shots, is a room brawl in a Hongkong night- club.
'Inspector" Nick Kendall arrives in the middle of the fight as chairs begin to fly, and aided by five constables clears the
raum,
Neit arresta
the of Brunks in the bar, a gent by The name of Mark Conrads (Curt Jurgens). "Oh it's you Same old thing, that's again. three times in ไพ weeks. You are for it this time Con rads," says Kendall, Laking him away.
Disc jockey, Nick Kendelt with астот (right) is seen OTSAT Welten, ягат nj "Ferry to Hongkong" on the Bay. Deep Water Kendall plays the part of a Police Inspector,
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mirror
chair smashes a huge behind him, but he comes up still hammering away at his drum, beating the time for a fan-dancer who wiggles while the fight goes on.
officer,
In his part of a law Wallace takes Conrade to the Macao ferry whart and hands him over to the captain of the
Fa Tson.
When it is finally decided to tnite Conrads off the ferry again, And that is where the whole Wallace takes him into custody story begins. Conrads is to be and makes sure that Conrads deported, "but he finds his way leaves the Colony. on to one of the Hongkong- Macao ferrics, captained by Orson Welles.
Faulty Uniforms
Conrade finds he cannot land
In the Portuguese colony, and on the return trip, he is not allowed So off the ferry at Hongkong. he becomes a man-without-a- State.
to Nick Yesterday I spotte about the part he has to play in breaking up the bar room fight.
"At first," he said, "the unions we wore, were no quite right, and a real Inspector gave us a thorough inspection.
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The scene had to be very care- fully rehearsed as huge round mirrors, glassware and furniture are smashed. "Before-ench scene wes shot, we had to rehearse il two or three times," he said.
"Then we get to the bit when I' catre
he salt. "The [brawi was my cathentic looking. that I was afraid somebody really would get injured."
The aght, under the watchful eye of director Lewis Glibert, is between two groups of English and American sailors. Civilians join in the battle, but the fan- dancers and the band do not step.
The drummer sa on the handstand.
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His hood is alment do you think of this Egyptis to move.
business of smelting the "Anwan | No. He hesitates. On a pawn. Bust has Just sneezed. He's ore in their new steel-mill?" I looking at his queen. D-o-oh! call.cally: "It should be left moved that ungmelted." "What on earth do Schnovnik nearly
& ASTOR: "Hotzer of pawn, and But flinched, but you mean?" he asked. I winked |LER
very knowing. Dracula," starring Teler yes yes now Schnovnik's end fooled
"Un- I said. hand in hovering again-yes. "Belleve me,"
Cushing qud Christopher Lea' the tension's terrific. He's emelie ore in the thing. Reasi ORIENTAL. Alfred Hitchcock's
But, of
Man," grasped the pawn in his right the Dalcott Report.
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James onid lie. RITZ: "Cer Torfor,” Schnovnik's moved his pawn, "Never heard, of 12,"
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AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
By H. King Wood
Sydney Fireworks
Cause
Traffic
Chaos
Sydney (By Airmail).
There is something about a fireworks display which sets the cash customers stamping to get through the turnstiles.
In
Last Friday night one of the biggest crowds in Sydney's his tory-even bigger than any one night of the Queen's visit 1953 bruke every truffle role in the book and jam-packed every street to take up vantage points to see the Hatbour fireworks display that colucided with the opening of the Japanese Trade Fair.
Every available polleeman was called on duty to deal with crowd estimated at more than 750,000 and
every practically car 121 the metropolitan area chugged its way to add to the Jom.
It took more than five hours to clear the city after the last bunger went off and police had to make appeals to private motorists to low nway vehletes that had broken down through overheated engines, vapour locks In petrol pipes, slipping clutches and all the other fils that befall motor vehicles when they are forced to idle and crawl in low Cear for long periods.
*The Greworics themselves: unfortunately a bit of a damp Equil, by no means lived up to their reputatlon,
The Trade Fair self. how- ever, in a different kettle of fish, On display are some of the most outstanding warr—textiles, toys, electrical, optical-that" has been our pleasure 10 sce. Local manufacturers have low- ed the Fair with dismay. They say that the quality
and
the prices offered by the Japanese cannot
in any way be met by Australian competition.
A grim prospect faced the little town of Bemboka, from 20 miles Inland Bega, last week - the grim prospéct of beer with no pub.
The township had seven full 16-gallon kegs, but no pub In which to serve it because fro had destroyed the town's only hotel the day before.
The only thing left after the hatel had burned down was the kegs of beer in a shed n! the back with the beer simmering rently in a temperature of degrees.
Moving
under
footpaths city streets and an over- head moving footpath across a main suburban highway aro among the latest proposals being considered by a Govern- ment. sub-committee to Sydney's choking
free
streets.
D
M. P. D. Halls,
Labour Parliament member of State and a former Lord Mayor Sydney, has propered the mov- Ing footpaths.
of
As Lord Mayor he was re- sponsible for the scheme for an footpath underground moving tcuding to the underground Domain pariting station.
Mr His sald later he be- lieved that such footpaths would become the future major move Fin pedestriu trome at main points of congestion in the city.
It is surprising to find that there have been fewer
10 drunks since
p.m. closing
came to New South Wales.
A study, cf offelal Agures this, week show that convictions for drunkenness have fallen in pro- portion to population increase since 19 pts, closing was intro- duced.
They also show that the, In- crease since then in convictions for drunken driving is 'action stantially fesa thum' the propor- tion in the increase of licensed
drivera.
Ten o'dock closing of fotels was brought in for a trial period rome years age, but has proved so successful that any sugges- tion that the trini shouki, ba halted has never beca periqusly cinakdered.