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...died at New York Hospital from complications from lupus. Kuralt joined CBS News in 1957 as a writer after working as a reporter and columnist for the Charlotte (N.C.) News. He quickly rose to prominence at the network, with one of his bosses describing him as "the next Ed Murrow." The self-deprecating Kuralt dismissed such praise as "ridiculous." Kuralt left hard news in 1967 to launch "On the Road." The three month trial was an immediate hit, and Kuralt over the next two-plus decases found a large and loyal audience for his unique stories about the American people...
Marvin L. Kalb, Murrow professor of press and public policy at the Kennedy School, presented the award, which is given annually to a journalist who has enriched political discourse. Kalb said Walters has "broken barriers" in the world of television news...
...with Averell Harriman, the top U.S. envoy in Britain, from whom she channeled intelligence information to her father-in-law to help draw the U.S. into the war. When Harriman moved to Moscow two years later as ambassador, she began a torrid romance with cbs broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the love of her life, who proposed, then changed his mind when his wife gave birth...
...died in 1971. She then married the aged Averell Harriman--Wall Street heir, Roosevelt New Dealer, diplomat and former Governor of New York. He had been her munificent lover in Britain during World War II. Other beaux of that exciting time and place included John Hay Whitney, Edward R. Murrow and his boss, CBS founder William Paley, who later crowned the red-haired beauty the "great courtesan of the century...
...course, co-taught by Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy Marvin Kalb and newly-appointed Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Thomas Patterson, examines the polemic power of the media in shaping public policy...