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Reminiscence of Murrow...
...read of Edward Murrow's death [May 7] with considerable sorrow. In the early days of World War II, I worked in a BBC studio adjacent to one he used. On quite a few occasions. Murrow came into our room to try out his opening lines on a British audience. One of these remains in my mind very clearly: "I have just come in from Piccadilly Circus tube station. There is a heavy raid in progress. But in the station itself, things appear to be quiet with the exception of a small man in a dirty overcoat...
...propaganda boss, Murrow proved an able administrator who insisted on playing every story straight for the rest of the world. Then, in 1964, he was forced to resign after a cancerous left lung was removed. Ever since he had gone into broadcasting Murrow had smoked from 60 to 70 cigarettes a day. "I doubt very much that I could spend half an hour without a cigarette with any comfort or ease," he once declared after narrating a program linking cigarettes to cancer...
...Murrow's solemn, dramatic style of news delivery has gone out of fashion in TV today. The newscasters of strive for a lighter touch in the manner of Huntley and Brinkley. But Murrow perfectly suited his anxious era. As he himself once explained: "The timing was right and the instrument powerful...
Died. Edward R. Murrow, 57, radio and TV's best known newsman; of lung cancer; at his farm in Pawling, N.Y. (see PRESS...