Radio: The Week in Review

The best show of the week was Ralph Edwards' usually saccharine This Is Your Life (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC). His candidate for TV biography: Dr. Laurence Jones, a 60-year-old Negro educator of great and good-humored dignity. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Jones traveled to the Mississippi backwoods in 1909 and set up a school for Negro children in a district where none had ever existed. A local Negro carpenter gave him a roof by donating some land and fixing up a ramshackle sheep pen on a corner of the property. Today the Piney Woods Country Life School is valued...

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