Word: heatter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wide & Weird. The world of electronic journalism that Murrow bestrides runs a course far wider than the one from the tabloids to the Times and weirder than anything in between. It echoes with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance...
Politburo & Pin-Up. At home, the big-name analysts were also working overtime. Concentrated in Manhattan and Washington, they range from Mutual's Gabriel Heatter, who dispenses folksy anecdotes and emotion-charged speeches in a voice ballooning with sepulchral tone, to ABC's Elmer Davis, who brings a dry and often witty realism to his clearly labeled speculations about what's behind the news...
There are many possible answers. Perhaps the simplest answer is: Because T. S. Eliot is a civilized man. He is more; he is a commentator on his age who is considered by some more important than Gabriel Heatter or Walter Winchell-or even Walter Lippmann...