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This ... is London, CBS Radio Correspondent Edward R. Murrow began in 1939. "Often the British are insular, but their determination must be recorded," he said, and so he did all through the war, never more memorably than by placing his microphone near the sidewalk to catch the unhurried footsteps of Londoners walking calmly to the air-raid shelters. Last week Lon don was calling again, this time to tell Murrow, 56, that Britons will know him as Sir Edward from now on. Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH Edward R. Murrow, former director...
...that trip, and even out of their argument, Johnson and Rowan developed a mutual respect. And so last week, Johnson appointed Rowan, 38, to be director of the U.S. Information Agency-an appointment that is likely to please Negro voters this fall. He will succeed Edward R. Murrow, 55, who resigned to recuperate from an operation for lung cancer...
While making a speech in Philadelphia, Edward R. Murrow, 55, chain-smoking director of the U.S. Information Agency, grew hoarse and decided to check in at Washington Hospital Center on his return to the capital. Doctors found a tumor in his left lung, decided that location of the growth made it necessary to remove the entire lung...
Faculty Raiding. What has largely saved Stanford is its fifth president: J. E. Wallace Sterling, 56, a Canadian-born historian who looks like a heavyweight Jimmy Durante, sounds like Edward R. Murrow and thinks like Tycoon Stanford. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Sterling worked his way through the University of Toronto pitching hay and peddling furniture polish. He got his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, went on to a distinguished teaching career at Caltech, where he also doubled as a CBS news analyst. He was director of the Huntington Library in 1949 when Stanford found...