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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-27
H'iehIights
TeIexision Todny..

1880, WTTG t5)-The Beat Of
Your Heart: Demonstration
Of the steps Of . heart ex-
animation.
$3.50. WAfAL (79-Twenty Guess
tions: Guest is Carl Erskine,
Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher.
$3.50. WNBW tl)-Arthur Muir
ray Party: Guests are Vaughn
Monroe and Evelyn knight,
vocalists. and the Oldfield
and Ware vaudeville team.
$500, WNBW ca - Summer
Playhouse: Douglas Kennedy
teaches an immigrant q les
son about America in 1.-THE
Shattered Dream"
$3.50. WMAL l7)-Center Stage:
Joseph Buloff stars as q cab
driver who owns q talking
taxi in Lucky Louie with
Gaby Rodgers.
$3.50, WNBW (4)-Top Plays:
Irene Dunno appears as q
nun in charge Of q big city
hospital in Sister Veronica. I"
$3.50. WTOP CO.. - Suspense:
Nina Foch, locked In d thea
ter, is at the mercy Of two
criminals in MAIN Feature:
Death
1900, WTTG (5)-Wrestling:
From Baltimore.
1880, WTOP (s)-Danger: The
story of a man who believes
money can buy anything is
told in "The Trophy"
1880, WNBW (4)-Our Beau
tiful Potomac: Senator Morse;
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, Dis
trict health officer, and T. r.
Fisher. chairman, Interstate
Commission Of the Potomac
River Basin: on q program
dealing with Potomac River
polluClOn.
Radio Today.
$3.50, WCFM-S Show Tunes: Sc
lections from "a Tree Grows
in Brooklyn"
1880, WGMS Opera Box: Ex-
cerpts from Moussorgsky's
"Boris Godounov."
$500, WWDC-Baseball: Wash
ingtor at Baltimore.
$3.50, WRC-Barrie Craig: A
small white envelope makes
William Gargan q target for
death in Death Buys a Bed
room"
$500, WMAL-America's Town
Meeting: How Can We Re-
solve U. S.-French Differ
enceS?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-27

MORNING AFTER - What
CBS-Tv seems to have discov-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-27
On the Air

The lot Of the television writer
is not the happiest in the world.
There is a large market for his
output, to be sure, and the pay
is getting better. but there are
drawbacks.
The movie scenarist completes
with other scenarists. The short
story writer completes with other
short story writer's. The novel;
list completes with other novel;
lists. The playwright completes
with other playwrights.
The TV writer has 1t rougher,
however. His competition comes
not only from others banging
out scripts for television shows;
it comes from life, too. And life,
as you may have noticed, can
get away with a lot Of things no
fashioner Of. fiction could dare
try.
Suppose, for instance, you are
turning out q piece of baseball
fiction. AS the climax you have,
naturally, q baseball game. It's
between two teams very close in
the league standings; the win
ner will move ahead, the loser
behind. The game is a pitchers
duel Of sorts for eight innings.
Then in the ninth the visiting
team scores one run. In the last
Of the ninth the first man UP
for the home team flies out. The
next draws a walk. The third
man singles and. playing his
luck and his legs, stretches it
into a double, the man ahead
Of him pulling up at third.
The next batter works up to
the three-two count and the
manager of the visiting team
strategy. With three balls and
two strikes on the batter, he
summons a control artist to the
mound. This brings a right
handler in against a right-handed
batter and cues a chess move
on the part Of the team man.
ager.
He sends in a left-handed bat
ter, Frank Merriwell Runnels, to
face that one pitched ball. With
two strikes on him the batter
can't waste much time looking
'em over. so he slaps single
past the shortstop. The man
scores from third and Frank
Merriwell Yost, stretching this
one, too, comes in from second
with the winning run and the
game is over.
y II i y
You know, If you are writing
q piece of baseball fiction. that
you can't get away with an i'm
plausible bit Of hokum like this.
In most writing fields this does
not matter, since all writers are
bound by the same rules and
avoid the same implausibilities.
Life, however. sneers at the
taboos. This one, as you know
If you were watching WTTG
Saturday night, happened.
Messrs. Runnels and Yost Joined
Golfer Frank Merriwell Wor-
sham among those who have
made the competition sitter for
the TV fiction scribes.
Maybe we're all going to have
to be q bit more lenient with
television dramatists and give
them permission to have their
art initiate life now and then.
Tv drama may be doomed u
real-life drama Is allowed to con-
tinue this unfair competition.
- 4 \
MORNING AFTER - What
CRS-Tv seems to have diScov-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-27

TVS To-day" The CHS Ito
9 am. television show is under
going a complete change of for.
mat at the hands OF Producers
Ted Fetter and Richard Brill.
On August is it will emerge
as a music-variety show, with
news confined to set periods two
minutes after. the hour and half
hour. Jack Paar is to be installed
as master of ceremonies, replac-
ing Walter Cronkite, who Is q
newsman by trade.
Bill and Cora Baird and their
puppets will remain with the
new Morning Show as will
Charles Collingwood, who will
do the newscasts. They will be
Joined by Betty Clooney, Jose
Melis and Pupi Campo Of Mr..
Paar's Saturday night show.
There will be q studio audience,
too, so Mr.. Paar will be able to
hear somebody laughing at him.
Probably for no other reason
than that 1t was two years later
In coming on the air. 1.-THE
Morning Show" has run q con-
sistent second to To-day" in the
audience ratings. The latest
American Research Bureau flg-
ures indicate that To-day" has
an audience about two-and-a-
half times the size OF 1.-THE
Morning Show"
The Morning Show" also
seems to have been attracting
the young in greater numbers
than its rival show. This is fine
for the children, but a network
has to think of sponsors. These
do not flock in great numbers to
shows for children, especially II
some rival has mothers or
fathers ear.
n \
EXPANSION With $50 TV
stations on the air Gas of July
49, the United States has three
and-a-half times as, many as the
rest Of the world combined. West
Germany Is second with 16. and
Canada is third with Il. There
are nine each in Great Britain,
Cuba and Italy and Russia re-
ports seven. Mexico has six TV
stations. Japan I'VE, France four,
Brazil four and Venezuela three.
The $50 Stations here serve
the 81 million nv sets sold to
the public Of SO million produced
since 1916. The other two mil
lion sets are III what are known
as '.trade pipelines"
These and q massive supply
Of other trade facts are available
in the 10th semiannual Televi-
sion Factbook. just published by
Television Digest. The reference
work itself Is q fair indication OF
the growth OF television. The
first edition in 1947 was q four
page booklet: this 18th is q
Weighty volume Of, exactly 400
pages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-27
On the Air
But Poor " Writer Can't Be
As ImpIousibIe as Life
BY Harry Macarthur

cred after its enthusiastic spree
with 1.-THE Morning Show" is
that the viewing audience did
not need q CHS version of NBC-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Constantine Brown
-
Frances Man on White Horse?
JUN, Fed Up With French Politicians, Has Had
His Eye on the Political Arena for Some Months

There may be more than
meets the eye to the conflict
between Marshal Alphonse-
Pierre JUN. the senior officer
Of the French Army, and his
civilian superiors, Premier Jo-
seph -.aniel and Defense Min
lister Rene Pleven. Many OBJ
servers believe this incident"
may have important conse-
quenceS in Frances chanel
comic political life.
1t has been an open secret
in Paris for some time that the
French soldier ranking in mill
tary ability second only to the
late Marshal Petain was cycling
the political arena. Like mil
lions Of his countrymen, JUN
is fed up with the antics of
the politicians who seem more
interested in themselves than
in the welfare of the country.
He is known to be willing to
"offer himself" in the event of
q major political upheaval as
the man on the white horse to
lead France out Of the present
political wilderness.
Whether JUN will have SUI
flcient popular backing and
whether. especially, he could
count on the full support and
loyalty Of the armed forces
whose effective chief he was
until Wednesday are matters
which only the future will tell.
JUN made a speech last
Saturday at Auxerre taking a
definite position against the
governments political policies
concerning the much-debated
European army. His immedi-
ate superiorS, Premier Laniel
and Defense Minister Pleven,
invited" him to appear. be-
fore them Wednesday to ex-
plain his speech and his
breach Of military regulations.
He ignored the invitation, thus
flinging the gauntlet at his
civilian chiefs. They retaliated
by stripping him Of all active
military commands except the
one he holds with NATO and
which is not under their I'm
mediate jurisdiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Equal School Bill Delay
Loses in Mississippi.
BY the Asseeiossd Press

JACKSON, Miss, April 1.-The
Mississippi House yesterday de-
feated the final effort to post
pone the school equalization bill
and started the program on its
way for a one-year term begin
ming July /.
The House defeated a motion
to reconsider the-vote on which
the bill passed Wednesday. The
bill, designed to equalize facil-
ties at both white and Negro
schools, was sent to the Senate.
where its future is still uncertain.
The bill, in its present form.
appropriates $50 million for two
years Of the program under a
compromise plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02

War. He realizes that the rich
est country in Europe could
easily regain her past glory
and prosperity if the politi-
clans. divided in so many
splinter parties, had not un-
dermined her vitality.
JUN has been a soldier all
his life and never Joined the
Free French movement in Lon
don after Frances defeat in
the last war. He was busy Or
ganizing the remnant forces
in North Africa for the day
when, he hoped, the allies
would come in sufficient
strength to permit him to fight
the Nazis.
It was only in the last two
or three years, when he began
having ideas that the reasons
for Frances present decrepi-
tude lie in the, lack of strong
leadership. that he started
playing to the galleries.
Observers of the French po-
litical scene with whom this
reporter talked in Paris last
November maintained then
that JUN had but little fol-
lowing in the country except
among some hotheads who
had been disappointed in Gen.
Charles de Gaulle throwing
away his chance to become the
man on a white horse. But
public opinion in France 10
more mercurial than else
where. The diomissal Of JUN
from all his active military
duties for political indiscre-
tions may rally around him
many who paid only scant at
tention to him in the past. He
is playing q highly popular
tune when he opposes the
"internationalism" Of the gov
eminent.
In the event Of a major po.
litical crisis which may result
from failure of the Geneva
conference or a spectacular
French defeat in Indo-China.
JUN may become the Standard
bearer Of those who have had
enough"
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in the legislative liaison Sec
ton Of one Of the armed serv-
ices. He tells me that they
keep daily logs of telephone
and written requests affecting
personnel which were received
from the offices Of Senators
and Congressman. He also gave
me a table of organization of
personnel engaged in process
ing these requests. May ] sug-
geSt that the newspapers would
perform q service to the public
If they published. with appro-
pirate charts, the tables Of
organization Of the machinery
for handling requests from
Capitol Hill about personnel
and also statistics of the num-
Der Of requests.
IT cannot conceive that the
Department of Defense would
dare to place themselves in q
position of tacit admission that
their detailed records on Cohn
and Schine amount to persecu-
ton Of only two boys. which
they certainly will be doing If
they can't come forward
promptly with similar records
and statistics on the thousands
of other senatorial and con-
gressional requests for special
favors. I am informed that
such records are kept. I sub
NIT that the public interest
would be particularly served
if the requests from the Office
of each Senator who will sit in
Judgment on Cohn and Schine
be analysed and published. I
learned at law school some
thing to the effect that He
who comes into equity must
come with clean hands"
Detailed testimony before the
Senate subcommittee by the
man who wrote the above
memorandum and by all other
former officials Of the Govern
ment who handled relations
between the armed services and
Capitol Hill would provide very
interesting reading. Their
names are on file at the Penta-
gon.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Admiral Strauss the Hbomb
city Of any size. And it takes only fitting
For crczing policy and snubbng President Laniel
French severely discipline topranking Aphonse
and order that he hencefoh be known General Douglas
MacJuin
Representatives argues extended
public housing This gracious rambler legislation
signed to hold two famiies-the Pros and the Cons
Republicans charged with stean-roeng labor law
amendments Committee The Democrats
can't stand seeing road through
to be-
United States rejects Soviet invitation join
security system Alliances with friends provide all the
quarreling handle as it is
g. p considers constitutional ban Supreme
ces running for President Heck that would kill Of
another great dissent like Trumans in the
Soprano.
President thinks 1t helpful high Govern
men jobs What used to be the cabinet
q Lazy Susan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Soviet U. n. Move Hints
AT Renewing Atom Talks
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y,
April 2.-Assignment Of an OFF,
cial from the Soviet defense min
istry to the United Nations Mill
tary Staff Committee is viewed
in some U. N. quarters as a sign
that Moscow may be preparing
the way for atomic talks once
more in the U. N.
The official is Mai. Gen. lila M.
Saraev, of the Soviet army, who
came to the y. N. recently from
a post in the foreign affairs Sec
ton Of the Soviet defense min
istry. During the war Gen.
Saraev did a tour Of duty as
military attache in the Soviet
Embassy in Washington. He
speaks English.
For the past year q colonel
has represented the Russians at
the semimonthly committee
meetings.
The chief Soviet delegate to
the U. NJ, Deputy Foreign Min
lister Andrei Y. vishinsky, yester-
day took over the presidency Of
the Security Council, which has
direct supervision over the mill
tary staff committee. Mr.. Wish
insky has given no hint Of any
plans to call q council meeting
soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Controversy Over Mr.. Sears
Choice of Mccarthy Probe Counsel Strs Dispute
Over Where the Bostonion Stands on the Big Issue

form Of letters which Harvard
sources assert were released to
the press before being re-
ceived by the president. In a
third skirmish, Mr.. Sears de-
bated Mark Devote Howe, a
Harvard professor, on the ques-
ton of whetherteachers plead
ing the fifth amendment
should be allowed to teach.
Mr.. Sears said no, emphati-
cally.
DR.. Howe defended Har-
wards position. It is that while
such pleading may sometimes
be deplorable, 1t is legal and
constitutional, and Harvard
will not take the law into its
own hands.
The fifth amendment is one
Of Senator McCarthy's great
slogans; he has repeatedly
sneered at witnesses as fifth
amendment Communists. Law
yers, conceding that it is some
times abused, have been doing
a good deal of soul-Searching
about it lately and have come
to no united conclusion. It
has been widely debated at bar
association meetings and in
the press.
Meanwhile, it remains in the
Constitution, and many con-
servatives are among those un-
willing to have it short-cir-
cuited, even by indirection.
Harvard is possibly super
sensitive by now as people and
institutions are apt to be when
they feel they have been UNI
justly treated. It was inevi-
table also that any counsel
for the Mccarthy inquiry
could expect to have a fine
tooth comb run over his record
by one side or another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02

The present tiff was not the
first between the peppery
soldier and his government.
Two years ago he published
an article In a French maya
zine in which he used some
strong words concerning the
United States and the NATO.
His conclusion was that the
politician who would quit the
NATO and bang the door in
the face of the United States
would become a popular hero
in France overnight. He was
mildly scolded by his superiors
and later appointed COM
mander of the Central Euro
pean forces of the NATO, a
post which he still holds.
Juin's outbursts against the
NATO, the United States and
the proposals for a six-nation
European army are believed to
be mainly a camouf1age for his
political ambitions. He wants
to win popular applause and
uses these three whipping boys
for that purpose.
JUN cannot be described as
anti-American. While he was
commanding French forces in
Africa under Gen. Maxine
Weygand between 1910 and
1912 he played along with us.
Soon after we landed in
Morocco and Algiers on No
vember Z, 1912, he joined us.
He distinguished himself par
ticularly in the Italian cam
paign as an excellent strate-
gist.
The 65-year-old marshal.
who holds this rank for life.
is one of the many French
soldiers who look longingly to
the past glory and power Of
France. He attributes the
present brittleness of his
country to nothing inherent
In the people themselves but
to the French politicians. He
has repeatedly stated that they
are the roots of all the evils
from which France has SUI
fered since the First World
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Dovid Lomence-
Congressional Wire-PuIIinq
Pentugon Urged to Name Representatives and Senators
Who Hove Asked Army to Fovor Constituents Sons

for special favors for their
sons.
Gen. Persons, who headed
the Army liaison for many
years, was SO indispensable
and irreplaceable that he was
made an exception to Army
regulations and retained on
Capitol Hill to keep Congress-
men and Senators happy. !
mean no disrespect to him be-
cause I admire him. In fact,
he did a superlative job for the
Army. It was so good that
people in the Navy were con-
stantly hearing unpleasant
comparisons between his
handling Of requests for spe-
cial favors in contrast to the
stuffy Navy practice of the
Bureau of Personnel in putting
p. T. for political influence
on the files of men for whom
politicians had interviewed.
II know that at the request
Of the Secretary of the Navy,
his assistant made a survey Of
the superior legislative rela-
tions of the Army over the
IVY, and this led to recon-
.-aendationS to improve the
Navy's service to Capitol Hill
patterned on what the Army
was doing.
1T Is rank hypocrisy for any
one-particularly for some of
the newspaper publishers who
themselves benefited by spe-
cial favors which they never
hesitated to request through
their Senators and Congress-
men-to pretend that there is
anything unusual in the Cohn-
Schine requests. And 1t is
particularly ridiculous for
writer's to say that the special
favors demanded by Cohn or
Mccarthy for Schine had
devastating effects on the
morale at Fort Dix. That is
hypocritical bunk, and those
who write it must know it or
they don't know what makes
Washington. Capitol Hill or
the Army and Navy tick.
II have within the last few
days talked with an officer
whose duty 1t has been to serve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
David Lowrence

Selection of Samuel Sears
Of Boston to be counsel for the
Senate subcommittee which is
to investigate the dispute be-
tween the Secretary Of the
Army and members Of the staff
Of Senator McCarthy's COM
mittee is the beginning Of what
may prove to be long-drawn-
out inquiry into the whole SUBJ
ject Of political pull in WASH
ington.
What is the political influ-
ence, for example, reaching
into the armed services to get
promotions? What part do
members of Congress play in
such inner maneuvers? How
are civilians given important
commissions? What commu-
nications, oral or written, have
passed between the offices Of
the three armed services and
the members Of the Senate
and House, with particular
reference to the committees
In both Houses which deal
with legislation affecting t
military establishment?
This is the time for Con-
gress to clean up its own
mess" For many years now
1t has been well known that
favored treatment" for con-
stituents has been obtained.
The Schine- Cohn case cannot
be tried fairly unless it is put
into perspective-that is, I'M
less all the facts concerning
the atmosphere in which the
case has been projected are
fully disclosed.
This correspondent is in re-
ceipt Of a memorandum from
q man who served as a special
assistant to one of the high
civilian officials of the armed
services during World War
II. He writes as follows:
"Of course, you are probably
more familiar than I am with
the large liaison stats that the
Army and Navy have main
tanned to process requests from
the Offices Of Senators and
Congressman which are passed
on from constituents asking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02

be enhanced In value over
night and all during their pro-
ductive life. How closely the
reserves are held was revealed
in a study made in 1913 under
the direction Of FPC Commits
sioners Claude L. Draper and
Leland Olds Of two fields,
Hugoton and Texas Panhan-
die. Twenty-Five big oil and
natural gas companies owned
80 per cent Of the reserves in
the latter. and Is in the for
mer.
This would be another case
Of them that has-gits."
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loyal Americans would send
their children to such a school.
Mr.. Sears, a graduate both
OF Harvard College and Of
Harvard Law School. is de-
scribed as public critic Of his
alma mater on at least three
occasions, all having to do
with its handling of Com
muniStS.
In March, 1851, he pro-
tested to the president against
the law schools granting of
permission to the National
Lawyers Guild to hold a meet
ing. there. The National Law
yers Guild, which Democrats
and New Dealers helped found.
has been under suspicion since
1910 when leading lights of
the Roosevelt administration,
including Robert Jackson. now
an associate justice of the
Supreme Court, and Adolph
Berle, former assistant Secre-
tary of State, led a walkout
from it.
This was the period Of the
Nazi-Soviet pact which served
in many places to separate the
liberals from the pro-Soviets.
The guild is waging a court
battle to prevent Attorney
General Brownell from placing
it on the list of subversive or
CARNATIONS.
Later, Mr.. Sears attacked
the law school for retaining
as students the Lubell twins,
who pleaded the fifth amend
ment in a Communist inquiry.
The Lubells. as he pointed out,
were enjoying their education
thanks to alumni scholarships.
These complaints took the