Table Talk

Radio's retreat into the old simplicities of parlor games and porch-swing entertainment was extended to the dining room last week when CBS put a weekly series of dinner parties on its summer broadcasting schedule. Invitations are going out for Wednesday evening dinners. Place: CBS' Manhattan studios. Host: Professor Lyman Lloyd Bryson of Columbia University's Teachers College, chairman of Columbia's Adult Education Board.

This broadcast bread-breaking has been titled The People's Platform, will go on the air July 20. Guests will include knowns and unknowns. Before 8 p.m. air time Professor Bryson, an old hand at conducting forums and group discussions, will lead the talk around to national problems. He hopes his dinner guests will be warmed up and spouting fluently when the concealed table microphones go into action.

Eating on the air had an NBC tryout last year with three broadcasts originating in the floral centerpiece on Magazine Editor Henry Goddard Leach's dinner table. These were big, celebrity-peppered parties. CBS plans to entertain only four guests each week, to draw them from all economic levels, all shades of political opinion. "We hope with The People's Platform to demonstrate the scientific method of reaching conclusions," explained Educator Bryson.

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