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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What gives Murrow his big edge in prestige and following over his rivals? He does not write so well as his own colleagues Sevareid and Howard K. Smith, or ad-lib with the graceful ease of ABC's John Daly, CBS's Walter Cronkite and Robert Trout, or analyze the news with the pungency of ABC's Quincy Howe. As a reporter, he is not always as knowledgeable as ABC's Edward P. Morgan. Murrow's pontifical superficialities in his pundit's dialogue with Sevareid in CBS's presidential-election coverage last year...
Even before Buchwald could sum up, another ad popped up in the Times: "Do you dislike the British? Advertiser would be grateful to hear reasons . . ." Then another: "Would like to hear from anyone who likes Americans and why ..." The first of the ads was placed by BBC TV's topical show Tonight, whose spokesman concluded: "Americans have a commendable liking for the British, or you are more reticent than we British, despite a widespread belief to the contrary." The second ad brought 250 friendly replies to the American Weekend, a weekly published in Frankfurt...
Archaic Britons. Meantime still another ad began appearing in newspapers in U.S. cities: "Student of Anglo-American relations is anxious to know what qualities are most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public...
...last. The only thing that keeps them alive at all is their sludge-weighted coffee, warm martinis and tiors d'oeuvres made exclusively by smearing stale anchovy paste on soggy crackers." Columnist Buchwald. tiring of it all, wondered if he could end it by placing one more ad in the Times: "Will people who like killing birds as much as I do write...
...Also a furrowed-brow item in U.S. News & World Report, beginning: "American and British officials in London would like to know what is behind the following classified ad...