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<text>
<title>
(1940s) Edward R. Murrow
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Edward R. Murrow
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<p>(December 15, 1941)
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<p> Edward R. Murrow is a dark, lanky man with a luminous grin and
a scholar's careful head. Thinking about Europe and thinking on
his feet were two specialties with him before he became chief
of CBS's news staff abroad in 1937.
</p>
<p> Other newsmen did their jobs under similar conditions;
Murrow's distinction was that he did more than his job. Twice
every 24 hours, on the appointed second, almost never fluffing
a word, in a voice that meant what it said,he not only reported
the news but conveyed an actuality. U.S. listeners actually
heard the people going by the church of St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields on their way to shelters before a raid because Murrow
laid his mike down on the sidewalk to pick up their unhurried
footsteps. U.S. listeners sensed the strange silence between
two raids on moonlit London because Murrow told them how
loudly the liquid from two pierced cans of peaches dripped
inside a smashed shop.
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<p> No bunk, no journalese, no sentimentality. Of the embattled
English he remarked, "Often they are insular, but their
determination must be recorded."
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<p> At a time when the official British were still egg-walking on
the subject of the U.S., he reported the truth in plain words:
"They want us in this war."</p>
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