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...Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left arm in four...
Franklin's first effort was a 23? Arabic version of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe, published in Cairo in 1953. The first edition of 35,000 copies sold out the first day. Franklin has gone on to feed the Middle and Far Eastern appetite for books ranging from Ethan Frome to Gone With the Wind, from The Spirit of St. Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned...
...Strengthening Rocky's hand, the Democrats have not even been able to come up with a Senate candidate to face G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits. Desperate for names, Democratic leaders put out word that their choice was U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. then U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow-without even bothering to tell Bunche or Murrow about it first. Embarrassed, both men quickly ruled themselves out of the race...
...muscles working nervously as he paused in midsentence to grope for words, Walker assailed, as being soft on Communism, a whole Who's Who in America: Dwight Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, Commentators Walter Cronkite Eric Sevareid, Writers John Gunther, Max Lerner, Joseph Barnes, and Harry and Bonaro Overstreet. (It turned though, that he had not read the books that he denounced as bad reading his troops.) He charged that he had "framed in a den of iniquity" was and the victim of a mysterious "real control apparatus" dedicated...
...that," said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy. Growled South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who objected to the movie's scenes dealing with one Senator's homosexuality (and consequent blackmail): "I don't think it will be wholesome for either our people or those abroad." Ed Murrow, a man not often at a loss for words, did not even care to think about what the film would do to the U.S. image overseas. "Aw," he groaned, "I don't want to get near that one-not tonight...