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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1939-40
the regular announcing staff includes Jack Knell, Tony Marvin, Jackson Wheeler, and John Reed King.
In Europe the staff is headed by Edward R. Murrow. Under him are men in every key city on the continent: Vincent Sheehan and Erland Echlin in London; David Anderson in Stockholm; Russell Hill in Budapest; Eric Sevareid, Larry Laseuer, and Thomas Grandin in France; Cecil Brown in Rome; Farnsworth Fowle in Ankhara; William L. Shirer in Berlin; and Spencer Williams in Bucharest. These men all move about a great deal, the staff in France already having been obliged to leave that country and either go on to other spots or return to America. Increasing interest in the affairs of Central and South America has sent CBS radio correspondents to Mexico City and Buenos Aires. They are Clarence Sorenson and Herbert Clark.
The six men whose broadcasts I have decided to print this year are Major Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams, and Raymond Gram Swing. They are all well known not only as radio voices and personalities but as newsmen of very high rank. The con¬ ditions under which radio news reporters and news analysts must frequently do their work, especially these men broad¬ casting from abroad, can be envisioned by what I have already quoted from Mr. Taylor.
George Fielding Eliot. — He was born in Brooklyn in 1894. His family moved to Australia when he was an eight-yearold, and he was graduated from the University of Mel¬ bourne in 1914. He served during the entire World War with the Australian Imperial Force, seeing action in Egypt, at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front. He was elevated to the rank of major and served in the Military Intelligence Reserve, United States Army, for the eight years between 1922 and 1930. His comprehensive study of American national defense, “The Ramparts We Watch,” was pub¬ lished in 1938. “Bombs Bursting in Air” (the influence of air power on international relations) appeared a year later. He is co-author (with Major R. E. Dupuy) of “If War Comes.” He has contributed articles on military and naval affairs to Harper's, The Saturday Evening Post, American
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