Word: murrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murrow and to Murrow and to Murrow crept in this petty pace many of the bell-clanging news stories of the past quarter-century. By 1941, after covering the blitz in Britain, Edward Roscoe Murrow was prestigious enough to be an intimate of F.D.R., and by 1946 (it took a bit more doing), important enough to be a vice president of CBS. But within two years he had abandoned his desk and paper-shuffling, and by 1951 was spending most of his energy on See It Now, the high-cost (up to $100,000 per show) documentary which, on subjects...
...silent Reporter Murrow, Manhattan wags were offering him this wry consolation: "Confucius say, 'Man who walks through whorehouse is sure to be misunderstood...
Edward Roscoe Murrow, one of the reportorial heroes of the Battle of Britain and TV's David against Goliath McCarthy, last week found his name linked with what one snickering newspaper called "doves of sin." It happened through CBS radio's lively tabloid report on "The Business of Sex" (TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when...
Everyone reacted wonderfully in character. New York's Finest, in the shape of First Deputy Police Commissioner James Kennedy, came forward indignantly to ask names and addresses of the call girls, madams and businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole...
Many businessmen felt that Murrow had smeared them through "guilt by association." That call girls are sometimes used by business was scarcely news. But, said the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "We just don't believe this sordid business exists on anything like the scale Murrow suggests . . . Cops and other authorities are openly skeptical that many businesses routinely debauch their customers...