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...Transcript when it folded), New York and Chicago, are amazed at the gumption of meek little Morrison's broadcasts. When they knew him (not too well) he was the sort of self-effacing guy who worked hard, came and went methodically, rarely displayed his fine talents as a conversationalist. The cable editors of the Chicago Sun are amazed at his subtle outwitting of the Cairo censors. But at CBS it is Chester Morrison's voice itself that is considered most amazing. Says News Director Paul White: "That voice sounds like the voice of doom...
...their hours were spent in intensive business. Churchill, in spite of his lisp (which he suppresses when he makes a speech), is a superb story teller, with an irony that eats like slow acid. The President, utterly fluent, is an engaging conversationalist. Two such men do not get quickly to the subject of their business...
Judge Rosenrnan is a quiet, shy, almost anonymous jurist. Texas-born, Jewish, 45, married, with two sons. He dislikes physical effort, delights in mental exercise. Scholarly, retiring, an easy conversationalist, Rosenman is the President's unofficial speechwriter. Out of 13 years' experience, the President has an absolute respect for Rosenman's judgment, calls him "Sammy the Rose...
...Major Dupuy got on the air four times for CBS mostly as a military conversationalist with News Analysts Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn (see p. 46). Major Lambert, in his single turn at the microphone, told MBS audiences that the Polish strategy would be to withdraw before the Germans to the Vistula and stall until the autumn rains, which were expected to bog down Germany's mechanized army...
Almost as common an effect is a marked tendency to garrulousness, not quite in the ordinary manic form of a rush of speech with a flight of ideas, but rather like the sprightly chatter of the good conversationalist who knows he is good...