Word: shirer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave readers back home the world's best European coverage. From such resident and visiting firemen as the New York Evening Post's Dorothy Thompson. I.N.S.'s late H. R. Knickerbocker (who once interviewed Stalin's mother), the Chicago Tribune's William (Berlin Diary) Shirer, and Author Sheean, Correspondent Gunther busily soaked up lore and legends that never made the news stories. Gunther's most valuable mentor: the New York Evening Post's M. W. (''Mike") Fodor, dean of Balkan correspondents, who helped the young Chicagoan so generously that fellow newsmen...
...hired him as its director of talks and education, and in 1937 sent him to London as "European director," a one-man foreign staff charged with arranging cultural programs. As an assistant on the Continent, Murrow hired from the now-expired Universal Service a newsman named William L. Shirer. Soon the two switched from "cultural stuff" to report the Austrian Anschluss, and then, as Europe hurtled toward war, Murrow began hiring the core of what is still the best news staff of the networks. Among the "Murrow boys," as CBS calls them: Eric Sevareid, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood. Richard Hottelot...
William Lawrence (Berlin Diary) Shirer is not the man to stop writing novels just because he is not very good...
...that all its characters are "imaginary." But any moderately attentive reader will begin naming the originals who inspired them almost at once, will feel in the end what is sadly true: that Stranger is a sour mash of stale news stories. The only bit of imagination connected with Author Shirer's book is the startling notion of calling it a novel...
Stranger is written in the form of a diary. It is being kept by Raymond Whitehead, who returns to the U.S. after many years as a foreign correspondent to become a news broadcaster (a career that parallels Author Shirer's). Hero Whitehead had once been in the foreign service, but the State Department had found his reports "too literary.'' Someone must have been letting him down gently. Whitehead-Shirer uses "tomes"' and "major opus" for books, "espied" for saw, "eminent solon" for Senator. When Whitehead is thinking deeply, as he does one day at a baseball...