Television: Review

The show opened with the familiarly quiet voice: "This is Ed Murrow. Listen to an informer now in hiding, afraid he will be found and killed." With that, CBS radio last week told in the bone-chilling words of its participants The Galíndez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror. The skillfully fleshed-out version of the story, first revealed by TIME and LIFE, made an impressive documentary-in-sound—so impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque, was kidnaped from Manhattan, spirited out...

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