IN REVIEW

gan, would have been a more notable event had the stars shelved their usual routines and worked together as a cast in a single produc- tion. As it was, the Comedy Hour plodded along in a disconnected slowly-paced fashion. It lacked the over -all polish expected of profes- sional showmen. Pound for pound the show was about as light and palatable as the mam- moth cake made out of soap which had been whipped up to fete the program, its producers and its stars.

BOMB TARGET, U.S.A. CBS Radio, 9-10 p.m., March 20. Narrator: Arthur Godfrey. Commentators: Charles Collingwood, Da- vid Moore and Peter Backes. Producer: Irving Gitlin. Supervisor: Stuart Novins. Original Music: Ben Ludlow. Musical Conductor: Alfredo Antonini.

THE need for preparedness in civil defense organization was vividly underlined in CBS Radio's full -hour documentary, Bomb Target, U.S.A., tape recorded at more than 100 key points across the country and presented March 20. The program was a formidable task, and its result deserves tribute to CBS Radio's officials and a staff of 31 newsmen. It had some of the best elements of drama-suspense, pathos, humor, and tragedy. And in the best documen- tary tradition, it presented facts and figures, opinions and viewpoints from civil defense officials throughout the country, Army and Navy authorities, and the little guy in the street who is doing his share toward making his coun- try safe. The program built up excitement as CBS correspondents Charles Collingwood, David Moore and Peter Hackes, aboard a B -29 simulat- ing attacks on New York, , and San Francisco, reported their progress toward their "targets" as radio, ground observer, anti-air- craft, and jet interceptor fight plane units went into action "against" them. If any criticism can be directed toward such COMING! a laudable project, it is that an hour is too long to sustain audience interest. In view of the sub- ject matter here, this criticism might more pro- perly be directed against the public. But as narrator Arthur Godfrey called in officials and WAKR -TV volunteers throughout the country, the listener may well have tended to lose contact with the central dramatic motif -the bomb attacks. Though a half -hour program might have neces- Akron's sitated the elimination of much authoritative testimony, it should have brought more sharply into focus the message that many localities are FIRST not prepared, and that "it" could happen here.

TV BOOKS AND EDUCATION IN THE Station UNITED STATES. By Charles A. Siep- mann. International Documents Service, Columbia U. Press, 2960 Broadway, New ch. 49 York 27. 132 pp. $1. PUBLISHED by the United Nations Educa- tional, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), this paper-bound booklet is de- scribed as a preliminary and provisional report, for the benefit of UNESCO member states who plan to develop TV, on the U. S. television sys- tem's experiments in the interests of educa- tion, science and culture. Chapters on tele- 5000 WATTS o ABC Represented by WEED & CO. vision discuss the U. S. system, audience and effects, network educational policies and prac- tice, TV at colleges and universities, TV and schools, research findings and conclusions. Wage 18 'March 30, 1953 BROADCASTING TELECASTING