Word: schoenbrun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doggedly undertaken the task in Murrow: His Life and Times. Her volume is nothing if not inclusive: it mentions head colds and household accidents, and is replete with sometimes pointless anecdotes in which Murrow is at most a peripheral figure--half a page, for example, on how Correspondent David Schoenbrun's pregnant wife got out of bed at 7 a.m. to open the telegram offering him a job as CBS's Paris bureau chief. Perhaps Sperber felt obliged to empty her notebook simply to demonstrate that she conducted more than 150 interviews, involving essentially all the living principals in Murrow...
...David Schoenbrun...
...David Schoenbrun, a former CBS bureau chief in Paris, met De Gaulle and other Resistance figures during the war, when he was a young U.S. military intelligence officer. He has interviewed the surviving intelligence leaders, among the most notable of whom is Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who, as Hedgehog, ran the menagerie of animal-named agents known to the Gestapo as Noah's Ark. Schoenbrun threads expertly through the bewildering tangle of alliances and hostilities that is the history of the Resistance. He is particularly skilled at portraiture, notably the grand, absurd, indomitable figure of De Gaulle, at one point...