Small World

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Dr. Mark Van Doren, Rebecca West

A discussion on education includes author Rebecca West in Buckinghamshire, England; Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover in Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Mark Van Doren in Cornwall, Connecticut.

Peter Ustinov, Sol Hurok, Governor Theodore McKeldin

Particularly amusing telephonic chat between actor Peter Ustinov, impresario Sol Hurok and Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin. This combative trio consider politics, culture and TV. Hurok and Ustinov both make good sense, with the latter being not only perceptive, but witty as he demolishes several ideas advanced by Governor McKeldin, who unintentionally proves Ustinov's contention that politicians, like the Russians, can be funny precisely because they have no sense of humor.

James C. Hagerty, Jacques Soustelle, Malcolm Muggeridge

Conversation is carried on by Presidential News Secretary James C. Hagerty; Jacques Soustelle, minister of information for the De Gaulle government, and Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of Britain's Punch magazine. Speakers are in Washington, Paris and London, respectively.

General Alfred M. Groenther, Aneturin Bevan, Franz Josef Strauss

General Alfred M. Groenther, Aneturin Bevan, British Labor Party leader and Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's defense minister, discuss the defense of Middle and Western Europe.

President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Richard Clement Attlee

Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States, and Richard Clement Attlee, 40th prime minister of Great Britain, in intercontinental conversation with Edward R. Murrow. Mr. Truman is in Independence, Mo. Earl Attlee is in London.

Antoni Slonimski, Artur Rubenstein, Archibald MacLeish

Murrow is joined in intercontinental conversation by Antoni Slonimski, Poland's poet laureate, Artur Rubenstein, world-famed Polish born pianist, and Archibald MacLeish, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner. The guest speakers are in Warsaw, Paris and Washington, and the Warsaw visit is the show's first stop in a Communist country.

Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz-Marin, Dr. Galo Plaza

Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz-Marin and Dr. Galo Plaza, former president of Ecuador join Murrow in an unrehearsed, intercontinental conversation about relations between the United States and its neighbor nations to the South.

James O. Sastland, Herb Block, Professor Denis W. Brogan

James O. Sastland, Herbert L. Block, syndicated editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, and Denis W. Brogan, professor of political science at Cambridge, and moderator Murrow discuss the U.S. Senate's controversial filibuster rule.

Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn, Kenneth Tynan

Actress Vivien Leigh, movie producer Samuel Goldwyn and New York drama critic Kenneth Tynan join Murrow in a filmed conversation.