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- DIED. Eric Sevareid, 79, versatile journalist whose career
- spanned five decades; in Washington. Sevareid succeeded as a
- reporter, editor, war correspondent, radio newscaster,
- television commentator, columnist and author. He first found
- fame as one of "Murrow's boys," a group of crack newsmen
- assembled by Edward R. Murrow for CBS radio in Europe just
- before World War II. In Paris in 1940, Sevareid scored a huge
- journalistic coup when he became the first newsman to report
- that France was about to surrender to the Germans. After the war
- Sevareid covered the founding of the United Nations, served as
- CBS-TV's national correspondent in Washington and for nearly
- three decades contributed eloquent, carefully crafted political
- commentaries.
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