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During the war, Murrow hired a talented broadcasting staff: Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Charles Collingwood. His generosity to the people who worked for him was legendary, and around the networks something akin to a Murrow cult was formed. Eventually one CBS man, who had had enough, organized a Murrow Ain't God Club, and Murrow himself applied for charter membership...
...most penetrating criticism, however, has come from people outside the Peace Corps, who acknowledge only its "fringe benefits" and argue that it should not be regarded as a substitute for real economic development. Eric Sevareid, for example, admits that the Corps gives "frustrated American youth a sense of mission" and adds "to our comprehension of other societies." But he warn that "while the Corps has something to do with spot benefits in a few isolated places, whether in sanitizing drinking water or building culverts its work has and can have, very little to do with the fundamental investments, reorganizations...
Delano disagrees that the experience of volunteers abroad is merely a "fringe benefit." Young Americans acquire a perspective in foreign societies that is "fed back" to the entire society, broadening its values and preparing it for international responsibility. Delano argues that Sevareid underestimates the importance of social development--health, education and community organization--in economic development. The volunteer acts as a kind of "human catalyst." He emanates the idea: "We can do something about this.' " He initiates the process of organizing resources and assigning priorities. "The photographs show the same village, physically unaltered before and after," says Delano (referring...
...fully and exhaustively visible on all three networks. In the anchor booth, CBS tried a new vertical arrangement in contrast to the horizontal give-and-take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled H. L. Mencken's description of a convention orator as coming from "a home for extinct volcanoes...
...networks plan to cover the nominating proceedings at San Francisco's Cow Palace until the last ballot is counted. CBS is using four times as much manpower and equipment as in 1960, features 22 on-the-scene correspondents, including Anchorman Walter Cronkite, Reporters Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid. NBC has brought 60 tons of equipment, is building four complete studios, and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley will be bolstered by Floor Reporters John Chancellor and Frank McGee. In addition to Pundits Howard K. Smith and Edward P. Morgan, ABC viewers can benefit at least twice a day from...