Word: lesueur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. radio staffmen to broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
...Soviet Government ordered all citizens to turn in their radios. Reason: the Government did not want the people to hear German propaganda. The Russians obediently waited in line for days to give up their sets. Each set was tagged with its owner's name and stored away. When Lesueur heard about this and tried to borrow a set, he was told: "Why, we can't give you someone else's radio...
...Russian broadcasting equipment is good but scarcely compares with the U.S.'s (including much U.S.-made machinery in Russia). Warcaster Lesueur was not heard in the U.S. until he persuaded the Russians to jack up their frequencies...
...Like U.S. newspaper correspondents in Moscow, Lesueur had to rely for most of his information on communiques, the Army newspaper The Red Star, other military journals. News beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...
...real-estate agent told me," broadcast CBS's Larry Lesueur from London, "that the reason for London's failure to beautify itself after its first cleansing fire 300 years ago was that businessmen then were so eager to get back to work that they threw up any sort of building, just so that they would be in a position to do business. It's feared there will be a similar rush to get any kind of office going after this war is over...