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Stanton's ten vice presidents (average age, 45) agree with him and Paley that CBS must concentrate on news, drama, public service programs and music to offset NBC's stranglehold on comedy. Last week, two new V.P.s-39-year-old Davidson Taylor and 41-year-old Edward R. Murrow-took over programming completely after Vice President Douglas Coulter "resigned...
...came close to Edward Roscoe Murrow. Three times, bombs destroyed his London CBS offices. The day after he moved into office No. 4, another raid gutted the synagogue across the street. He flew 20 sorties with U.S. and British pilots, sailed the Channel on a minesweeper, lay in a London gutter to broadcast the sound of an air raid. This week, after nine years in England, Ed Murrow was off to the U.S. for good. But before he left, he spoke an eloquent "Farewell and Hail" over...
Just how wrong, Murrow was only too glad to admit. In his calm, precise voice he recalled Munich, and Chamberlain's return, and ". . . Mr. Winston Churchill sitting there below the gangway, like the conscience of Britain...
...said Ed Murrow, had given him the answer to the question: "What has happened to the soul of Britain?" He hated to leave, and England hated to see him go. The Morning Telegraph called him America's "unofficial ambassador." The Manchester Guardian hoped England had not heard the last of him. CBS was afraid it had. In his new job as CBS vice president in charge of correspondents, Ed Murrow will confine his voice to the conference room...
Born. To Edward R. Murrow, 41, CBS' earnest, discerning European news chief; and Janet Brewster Murrow, 36, wartime London director of Bundles for Britain : their first child, a boy ; in London. Name: Charles Casey. Weight...