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...forgotten Murrow boys) plunging off a sinking ship into the South China Sea; Eric Sevareid parachuting out of a doomed plane over the Himalayas and being rescued by a tribe of headhunters; William L. Shirer risking imprisonment by providing the first accounts of France's capitulation to Hitler; Charles Collingwood, the high-living, womanizing dandy, demonstrating incredible courage during the North Africa campaign. Dominating the story from London is Murrow himself, bringing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz back to an indifferent America, helping shift public opinion from isolationism to interventionism by painting vivid word pictures of ordinary Britons...
...with authentic period pieces and fabrics. In behalf of her cause, she was able to put aside her shyness and skillfully persuade rich collectors to part with their treasures in the name of history. The redecoration was a triumph celebrated on TV when the First Lady led correspondent Charles Collingwood through the rooms and explained her inspirations. Eighty million people tuned...
...proof or even formal accusation of wrongdoing. The White House got the FBI to confirm that it was investigating the travel office, as official guidelines permit if another agency or "credible person" first breaks the news. But on Friday, May 21, as reporters' questions became far more persistent, John Collingwood, head of the FBI press office, was summoned from lunch to an impromptu meeting at the White House. With communications director George Stephanopoulos, press secretary Dee Dee Myers and White House aide David Levy, Collingwood worked out a statement the FBI insists was intended only to guide officials responding...
When CBS hired a newly minted Univac to analyze the vote in the 1952 presidential election, network officials thought it a nifty publicity stunt. But when the printout appeared, an embarrassed Charles Collingwood reported that the machine couldn't make up its mind. It was not until after midnight that CBS confessed the truth: Univac had correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower would swamp Adlai Stevenson in one of the biggest landslides in history, but nobody believed it. It is a defining moment in THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a surprisingly satisfying five-part history of the computer that starts April...
DIED. Charles Collingwood, 68, debonair CBS radio and television correspondent who over four decades covered World War II, the White House and Viet Nam; of cancer; in New York City. Collingwood joined CBS in 1941 as part of Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's London team. He was the network's first U.N. correspondent and the first U.S. television newsman to visit North Viet Nam. In 1963 he won a Peabody Award for his televised tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy...