Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good red herring, is one of the Ziff-Davis group of magazines for mail-order scientists (Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, etc.). Managing Editor of Radio News is Karl Kopetzky, who prides himself on having learned journalism from Walter Winchell. During the early war days, Editor Kopetzky listened to Murrow in London, Grandin in Paris, Jordan in Berlin, etc., was struck with the costly time devoted by U. S. broadcasters to innocent prattle about London weather, etc. With the unfailing suspicion of a Winchell-bred newshawk, he dispatched an undercover man to get the inside story...
...depended largely on its own, crisis-trained staff for foreign coverage-lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
Lamented President Edward R. Murrow of the National Student Federation of America: "American students don't even know a crisis exists. The only question that interests them ... is Prohibition...