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...ERIC SEVAREID...
...television, last impressions are all. For a dozen years now Eric Sevareid, 63, has been the Dr. Johnson of the two-minute essay on the CBS Evening News. With his "somewhat forbidding Scandinavian manner" (as he has described it) and "a restraint that spells stuffiness to a lot of people," he has delivered so many thousand editorials, sermonets and sit-down comedy routines that the unkind younger generation has begun to refer to him as Eric Everyside...
...Wild a Dream proves that this ironic network Polonius was veri-fiably young once, a hard-edged radical and a complete stranger to the pundit's chair. First published 30 years ago, Sevareid's precocious autobiography was then compared with The Education of Henry Adams. It wound up around fifth on the bestseller charts, making the New York Times 1946 list of "Ten Best Books of the Year." Three decades later, young Sevareid's memoir does not seem quite in the Adams class. Yet it remains an important book with a new kind of timeliness...
From the start, both his times and his temperament have cast shadows across Sevareid, the all-American believer in simple faiths, decent instincts and great men. A cosmopolite from Velva (pop. 1,241), N. Dak., he was born into a bleak prairie universe whose "skyline offered nothing to soothe the senses." The grandson of a Norwegian immigrant, he inherited the official optimism of a pioneer, but also the matchless pessimism of an old-fashioned Lutheran. His father had to move the family to Minneapolis when the bank he worked for went broke during the droughts of the late 1920s...
...crisis hand, Magnuson came to TIME 16 years ago from the Minneapolis Tribune. There the Phi Beta Kappa journalism graduate of the University of Minnesota (other Minnesota alumni in journalism: Eric Sevareid and Harrison Salisbury) won several Twin Cities awards for crime reporting and human-interest stories, and for a decade covered a broad sweep of the upper Midwest, from Wisconsin to South Dakota. Given leeway by the Tribune, Magnuson wandered over his territory, reporting spot news and old frontier tales alike from Tuesday to Friday and protecting his favorites on Saturday, when he took over as night city editor...