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...Administrator, the Librarian of Congress and the British Ambassador were paid last week to a radio reporter. At a banquet given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria, some 1,100 persons of note twice rose to their feet in tribute to him. CBS's Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow, back from three years in grim London, was clearly given to understand that he had deserved well of the Republic...
...accustomed to hear from his home office three or four times a year that he had done a good job, this outpouring came as a surprise. But Ed Murrow knew that the work of many other radio correspondents was being honored through him. And he had seen too much blood and brick dust to overvalue bouquets...
...Murrow is a dark, lanky man with a luminous grin and a scholar's careful head. Thinking about Europe and thinking on his feet were two specialties with him before he became chief of CBS's news staff abroad in 1937. He had been President of the National Student Federation of America and assistant director of the Institute of International Education (with offices in Europe). A lack of newspaper experience turned out to be the least of his worries. Against stiff NBC competition-for NBC had been in the field for years and many Europeans thought...
...agreed then," Murrow says, "that in reporting the death of a civilization it would be impossible to under-dramatize." Once a bigshot in campus theatricals at Washington State College, Ed Murrow recognized that for listeners already gorged on emotional appeals nothing could be so dramatic as restraint. Last autumn's and winter's bombing tested that theory...
Back to the U.S. for vacation will come Edward R. Murrow, London commentator and European news chief. To succeed him CBS's star special events broadcaster, Bob Trout left the U.S. for London by Clipper this week...