Radio: The New Shows

TV news programming grew in stature last week with the addition of two shows by two first-rate newsmen—John Daly and Eric Sevareid.

Open Hearing (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC) concentrates largely on the work of congressional committees "where the issues—great and small—first rise to the viewable surface." The opening show was a sharp, well-done photographic wrap-up of the McCarthy-Army fracas, and was defined by John Daly as an "unfinished morality play." The show dealt with each of the principals in turn, and, mostly, in their own words. It highlighted the interesting process by which Senator...