Word: murrow
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...night attack has started, and I am with a fire brigade in a sandbag crow's nest on top of a tall building near the Thames." So somberly, portentously, Edward R. Murrow began an evening broadcast of the London blitz in the early days of World War II. To listeners in the U.S., his resonant, sepulchral voice came to convey the grim reality of war. Murrow followed Londoners on their way to air-raid shelters and caught their measured footsteps on his mike; he joined R.A.F. bomber pilots on their raids over Germany and described the nightmarish rainbow...
Last week the famed wartime voice was stilled. Ed Murrow, at 57, died of cancer in his home in Pawling, N. Y. The reputation he built in London would have assured him a place in the history of journalism, but he returned from the war to become the leading TV newscaster of his time. For seven years at CBS, he and Fred Friendly, now president of CBS News, produced a provocative news special, See It Now, which courted controversy in notoriously timid medium. Their most famous program was a devastatingly understated attack on Senator Joe McCarthy in his heyday. Murrow...
Charter Member. "Ed couldn't wait to grow up," his mother once said of him. Born on a tenant farm in North Carolina, Murrow moved with his family to the state of Washington, later attended Washington State College, where he majored in speech. After graduation, he went to work for educational organizations and in 1935 was hired by CBS. Sent to Europe to line up cultural programs, he was on an assignment in Warsaw when he got word of the Nazi Anschluss. Hastily chartering a plane to Vienna, he arrived in time to broadcast the Nazi takeover. After this...
During the war, Murrow hired a talented broadcasting staff: Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Charles Collingwood. His generosity to the people who worked for him was legendary, and around the networks something akin to a Murrow cult was formed. Eventually one CBS man, who had had enough, organized a Murrow Ain't God Club, and Murrow himself applied for charter membership...
This ... is London, CBS Radio Correspondent Edward R. Murrow began in 1939. "Often the British are insular, but their determination must be recorded," he said, and so he did all through the war, never more memorably than by placing his microphone near the sidewalk to catch the unhurried footsteps of Londoners walking calmly to the air-raid shelters. Last week Lon don was calling again, this time to tell Murrow, 56, that Britons will know him as Sir Edward from now on. Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...