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...world, his rhetoric growled and rolled like a magnificent thunderstorm. Plain Mr. Attlee could hardly hope to equal Mr. Churchill's sound effects-but last week he was told that his delivery was not even up to snuff. The verdict came from CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow...
...York Post, Correspondent Murrow gave a radio man's expert analysis of an Attlee speech: "not a success." Reason: "He swallowed the end of his sentences and managed to discuss the whole subject as though elucidating some obscure, unimportant passage in a Latin translation." Concluded Murrow: "Attlee will have to exercise his powers of persuasion in Commons . . . and the Cabinet... rather than from the broadcasting studio...
...Only three, by virtue of "long experience," are "pre-eminently qualified": sober, tomb-toned Raymond Swing; painstaking, calm-voiced Edward Murrow; ponderous, staccato-voiced Johannes Steel...
...author. Meantime commentators (with studiously cautious comments) and special newscasters (with no special news) reported from Washington and San Francisco. Sidewalk interviewers buttonholed unofficial celebrants. Extra-special musical numbers flew over the air like confetti (NBC hopefully played Look for the Silver Lining). From London, CBS's Ed Murrow said flatly: Truman and Churchill were ready to make an announcement but "it is now being held up ... [by] Marshal Stalin...
Thus CBS's European news chief, Ed Murrow, described the London room from which, all last week, came the U.S.'s swiftest and most dramatic news of the invasion. It was one of the small, windowless, ill-ventilated cubbyholes deep in the basement recesses of the massive Ministry of Information. There the four big U.S. networks forgot their rivalries in a common passion to get out the biggest news of World War II. It was U.S. radio's biggest moment, and radio...