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...Foghorn Voice." Murrow, who lives on Park Avenue and gets his suits from a Savile Row tailor, started out, on April 25, 1908, named Egbert, the son of a tenant farmer, in a log-slab house near Pole Cat Creek in North Carolina's Guilford County, twelve miles south of Greensboro. He was the youngest of Ethel and Roscoe Murrow's three boys. The eldest, Lacy, rose to be an Air Force brigadier general in the 18th Tactical Air Command, and is now a transportation consultant in Washington. The other, Dewey, is a contractor in Spokane...
...miles north of Seattle, where his father (who died two years ago) became a locomotive engineer in a logging camp. Ethel Murrow, now nearing 80, was a frugal, hard-working Methodist who read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow up to his brothers' level. Typically, when a photographer was once posing the two brothers in their...
...Paul Hawley, the American College of Surgeons has been urging county medical societies to crack down on ghost surgery and fee-splitting. Last week the San Diego society did so. It slapped a one-year suspension on Physician Egbert Morris Hayes of Palm City and Surgeon Wesley Walters of Chula Vista. This would not keep them from practicing, but barred them from leading hospitals in the country...
...Davis has been flying ever since he was 15, when he talked his father Egbert, sales manager of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), into paying for his lessons. By 16 he had got his private pilot's license, and by the time he graduated from the University of Arizona (he went there for his asthma), he had qualified as a commercial pilot and a flight instructor. He sold Piper Cubs, then formed Piedmont Aviation Inc. to combine plane sales, maintenance, flying instruction and charter service. When World War II broke, he began training Air Force flying instructors...
...Died. Egbert A. Van Alstyne, 73, old-time songwriter (In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Pretty Baby, Memories); of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years as a honky-tonk piano player and song plugger, Van Alstyne, with Lyricist Harry Williams, won Tin Pan Alley fame in 1903 with Navaho, then went on to turn out more than 500 tunes until radio came along to rout the family piano. When sheet-music sales began to drop, Van Alstyne decided it was time to retire...