This episode was originally released on 3/1/2022. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.____________In Breaking Walls episode 125 we continue our mini-series in March of 1954.——————————Highlights:• Edward R. Murrow Sees It Now• Perry Mason Busts The Syndicate• The 1954 DNC in Florida• Cathy and Elliott Lewis Can’t Fight City Hall• Groucho Marx Bets His Life• Phil Harris and Alice Faye: Happy Couple In Cancellation• The End of the Expense Account For Johnny Dollar?• Escape’s Violent Night• Bing and Frank Swap Oscar Stories and Sing Songs• The 1954 Tony Awards from NBC with Audrey Hepburn• Looking Ahead to April with The Army/McCarthy Hearings——————————The WallBreakers:thewallbreakers.comSubscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.To support the show:patreon.com/TheWallBreakers——————————The reading material used in today’s episode was:• On the Air — By John Dunning• Network Radio Ratings — by Jim Ramsburg• The Complete Escape Log — By Keith ScottAs well as articles from• Broadcasting Magazine• LIFE Magazine——————————On the interview front:• Alice Faye and John Guedel spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.• Mandel Kramer and William N. Robson spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org.• Harry Bartell, Mary Jane Croft, Don Diamond, Jack Johnstone and Byron Kane spoke to SPERDVAC. For more info, go to SPERDVAC.com.• Dick Joy, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman spoke with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver.• Norman Macdonnell was with John Hickman for his Gunsmoke documentary.• William Conrad spoke to collector Chris Lambesis in 1969.• And Bing Crosby spoke with Barbara Walters in 1977.——————————Selected music featured in today’s episode was:• Fever — By Peggy Lee• Sleep Walk — By Henri René• Exotique Bossa Nova — By Martin Denny• The Venice Dreamer Parts 1 & 2 — By George Winston• Danse Macabre — By Camille Saint-Saëns