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Next month's Italian election will get what radiomen call an "unprecedented coverage" by U.S. radio. In Manhattan last week, Edward Roscoe Murrow, 39, famed wartime chief of CBS's European Bureau, was packing his bags for the trip. He could have included three bright new prizes*: 1) his first Alfred I. du Pont Award (for "aggressive, independent and meritorious" newsgathering); 2) his second Overseas Press Club Award (for the "best interpretation of foreign affairs by radio"); 3) his third National Headliners' Club medal (for his coverage of the British royal wedding...
Gold Cup assignment for Murrow (he thinks it bears a depressing resemblance to Munich, 1938). "It's the biggest news story out of Europe this year," he says, "and I cannot sit here in an air-conditioned office and report...
...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS). The signing of the Magna Carta (1215 A.D.), "reported" by Newscasters Edward R. Murrow and John Daly...
...having lost many of its top programs to other networks, got a few in return (Mr. & Mrs. North from NBC, Double or Nothing from Mutual, Lum 'n' Abner from ABC). Headline repeaters: Dick Haymes, Baby Snooks, Lux Radio Theater. Edward R. Murrow returns to newscasting, with a Washington report...
...letters piled into CBS the first week. Encouraged, Hollenbeck promised soon to turn a "detached, noncommittal eye" on wire services and newsmagazines, as well as on the newspapers' columnists, comic and editorial pages, slanted news, twisted headlines and bent prose. Said CBS's delighted Edward R. Murrow: "I think we'll get a mass audience for this one. But even if we don't, it's definitely not just a summer filler...