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...command of tone of voice, the news as Edward R. Murrow wants it to be understood. Example: on the State Department's obstacles to travel of U.S. newsmen to China. Murrow's reporting has dripped with disapproval. The Murrow aphorism ("A Word for Today") that closes the newscast is often chosen to make an editorial point. Something as simple as a See It Now shot of a subject's grimace or surreptitious scratch can carry as much condemnation as a Chicago Tribune editorial...
...high hat and frock coat, presenting his credentials to the King and making a little speech. And during a visit to Kashmir they will hear-if by that time they have not been deafened by the music of Dimitri Tiomkin-a singing commercial for Lowell Thomas' daily newscast...
...lean, greying native of Walla Walla, Wash, with a quizzical look, owlish spectacles and a black mustache. Morgan made his most memorable 1956 newscasts on a story of painful intimacy to him, the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Aboard and reported killed in the crash with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent...
Gibbon stated that he had been misrepresented in the 11:30 p.m. WHRB newscast of Feb. 27. He denied having told WHRB the following things which were broadcast over the station: that he was disturbed by the HYRC dispute, that the State Committee was planning to look into the matter further, and that action would come only after a report of the special HYRC investigating committee. Gibbon said that he had not even heard of the special committee...
...covered Korea, the Bandung Conference, and other major events on assignment from Afro-American, which pays part of his expenses and allows him to sell stories to other publications. He has also worked as a free-lance correspondent for CBS, which in August 1955 carried his short-wave radio newscast from Moscow, the first permitted a U.S. newsman since 1947. Worthy tried to persuade CBS to underwrite his trip to China, but the network, wary of stirring up trouble in Washington, refused. However, CBS said it will continue to pick up Worthy's broadcasts, pay him when he returns...