Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

How? These are the questions that are who answer them, both in war and in peace NED CALMER Ned Calmer is a CBS news analyst and reporter who also happens to be a novelist, a not very common combination. His most recent novel is The Strange Land, based on World War II. Calmer was. born in Chicago, grew up in Boston, went to the U. of Virginia. He came to CBS in 1940 alter having worked for several years on newspapers here and abroad. CHARLES COLLINGWOOD Charles Collingwood, CBS's White House correspondent, like so many of his colleagues, came to radio directly from a press bureau abroad. In his case it wos UP; the place, London. He received the job while studying at Oxford. In 1940 he became a CBS war correspondent and until his White House assignment, was that network's chief West Coast correspondent. HENRY J. TAYLOR Henry J* Taylor brings to his weekly ABC news commentary a background steeped in economics and government. Educated at the U. of Virginia, his first job was on the Kansas City Journal. Also a businessman, the Chicago born commentator successfully built up a corn products company and has his own paper company. He was a W.W. II correspondent. BILL -COSTELLO Bill Costello's interest in Far Eastern affairs extends back to his undergraduate days at the University of Minnesota. Now, as CBS's chief correspondent in the Far East, he reports on the Korean situation, being brought in by transpacific circuit for the network's audiences. Costello had worked for the Honolulu Star Bulletin before joining CBS. WALTER WINCHELL Walter Winchell's Sunday night fifteen minutes over ABC are among the most widely heard in the history of radio. Winchell's electrically charged delivery of news plus his endless fountain of information on Hollywood and Broadway add up to a quarter hour millions are loath to miss. Manhattan-born Winchell is also a widely syndicated columnist. DON HOLLENBECK Nebraska-born Don Hollenbeck's career can be summed up in a series of initials: AP, I PM, OWI, CBS. Spelled out, he was a picture editor for | the Associated Press; picture \ editor for the newspaper PM, also its national affairs I editor; and European broad \ caster for the Office of War | Information. Don is now a i news analyst for the Columbia Broadcasting System. [ ALLAN JACKSON To Allan Jackson, like most CBS news analysts, the centers of world news are no mystery. He, along with other CBS staffers, can usually say, "I've been there." Jackson spent two years in the network's London office and was in Berlin during the crucial months of 1948. Then assigned to Washington, he covered the State Department. He's now in New York. LARRY LeSUEUR CBS's United Nations correspondent is Larry LeSueur, who won a 1949 Peabody Award for his coverage of that institution. LeSueur started with the UP in 1932, went abroad for CBS at the start of World War II. He covered the Blitz, the fall of France, the Russian defense against Germany and was the first to broadcast from the Normandy beachhead. EDWARD R. MURROW Edward R. Murrow's reportorial experience ranges from Hitler's march into Austria to the invasion of South Korea. In between he has covered the London blitz, the North African campaigns,. Princess Elizabeth's wedding, and the Berlin airlift— all for CBS. His achievements have been acknowledged twice by George Foster Peabody Awards. ERIC SEVAREID Eric Sevareid, CBS's chief Washington correspondent, was honored this year with a George Foster Peabody Award. A native of Velka, N. D. — he was born there in ■ 1912— he studied at the University of Minnesota and started his career on the Minneapolis Journal. Later he worked in the Paris bureau of the UP. It was in Paris that he joined CBS.|j