When Public Relations Director Lynn Poole first began talking about his idea around the Johns Hopkins University faculty club, some members of the science departments were frankly dismayed. "Appear on a television show?" they cried when Poole approached them. "Certainly not." Most of them pleaded that they were too busy; others candidly damned television as a pest and a bore.
Nonetheless, Poole tapped enough faculty men who did like the idea to start the Johns Hopkins Science Review. In 1948 the Review opened on Baltimore's local station WMAR-TV. Later, after a CBS tryout, DuMont picked it up for a network spot. By...
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