Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed then," Murrow says, "that in reporting the death of a civilization it would be impossible to under-dramatize." Once a bigshot in campus theatricals at Washington State College, Ed Murrow recognized that for listeners already gorged on emotional appeals nothing could be so dramatic as restraint. Last autumn's and winter's bombing tested that theory...
...Murrow grew 20 Ib. leaner before the last Dornier droned home from the great raids on London. His offices were hit twice. He broadcast in a studio littered with sleeping people on mattresses ("Tis new experience," he cabled, "although probably not so new people sleeping by loudspeakers...
Other newsmen did their jobs under similar conditions; Murrow's distinction was that he did more than his job. Twice every 24 hours, on the appointed second, almost never fluffing a word, in a voice that meant what it said, he not only reported the news but conveyed an actuality. U.S. listeners actually heard the people going by the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on their way to shelters before a raid because Murrow laid his mike down on the sidewalk to pick up their unhurried footsteps. U.S. listeners sensed the strange silence between...
...week's ornamental banquet, presided over by CBS's silver-haired Standby Elmer Davis, two debts were implicitly acknowledged. One acknowledgment came from the Administration to the men who had made the urgent plight of Britain palpable to millions. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish to Ed Murrow: "You have destroyed . . . the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not realty done...
...radio business as now conducted has been challenged by the Government's powerful Communications Commission. An observer at the banquet could note the glint of FCC Chairman James Fly's glasses down the table as CBS's earnest, boylike President William S. Paley, praising Murrow, promised to fight for freedom of the air "no matter whence, nor how subtly or how boldly comes the attack...