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Born. To Radio Correspondent William Lawrence Shirer, 37 (Berlin Diary), and Theresa Stiberitz Shirer, 31: a second daughter, Linda Elizabeth; in Manhattan...
Morale. Neither holding the nation's hand nor slapping the nation's back, several dependable radio voices helped keep the nation's head clear. CBS's William L. Shirer, in never-flustered tones, anticipated President Roosevelt in explaining what war meant in terms of information. Dry humor was provided by CBS's Elmer Davis, who snorted gently at Hitler's bombast about "a year of greatest decision." Said Elmer: "To judge from the precedent of the past two years, he's going to have to put the same old record...
...Institute of International Education (with offices in Europe). A lack of newspaper experience turned out to be the least of his worries. Against stiff NBC competition-for NBC had been in the field for years and many Europeans thought it the official U.S. network-he and his friend Bill Shirer in Berlin ably handled the disintegrating events of 1938-Anschluss, Godesberg, Munich...
...Correspondents. Best-seller among correspondents' books was William Shirer's Berlin Diary ($3), which by breaking down Europe's momentous years into momentous days gave his record the breathlessness of headlines. Runner-up was Virginia Cowles's Looking for Trouble ($3). Author Cowles, not one of the great by-liners, wrote current history with some of the fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books...
...famous Berlin newscaster, William L. Shirer, has had no successor in the art of wafting a lifted eyebrow on the air. But until Nazi armies got mired in Russia the job of broadcasting from Berlin, though it took gall and patience, could be honorably carried out. After CBS got tough last summer (TIME, July 28), it even seemed that Berlin would relax its clamp, at least on "color broadcasts." Instead, the personal war of nerves between radio correspondents and censors grew bitterer...