[N.B.C trade releases]. (1952)

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2 Captain Carlsen the two-week siege, NBC broadcast the first exclusive interview with the 37 -year-old skipper when finally he was brought ashore at Falmouth by the rescue tug Turmoil, Edwin Newman, an NBC radio correspondent in London, was sta¬ tioned at Falmouth during the dramatic days when Carlsen and his ship were in tow, Newman broadcast repeatedly from the center of rescue operations near Land’s End, England. Twice he flew over the ship and reported the status of the tow directly via NBC, NBC also broadcast recorded radio conversations between Carlsen and the captains of the two U.S, destroyers, the Weeks and the Willard Keith, which stood by the stricken freighter, NBC scored another first when it broadcast Carlsen' s "safe -on-shore" message to his wife and children in Woodside, N.J. Significant moments of the Carlsen saga were seen and heard during NBC -TV's early morning program, TODAY, o NBC -New York, 1/18/52