Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

WILLARD SHADEL Bill Shadel is another CBS correspondent with a predilection for being in the thick of things. He was with a Navy task force off Utah Beach on D-Day. He was with General Patton's Third Army through the Battle of the Bulge. He also covered the discovery of Hermann Soering's salt mine art cache. He's npw heard daily on CBS from Washington. HOWARD K. SMITH Howard K. Smith, CBS's European News Chief, is a Tulane graduate and a Rhodes Scholar. As CBS's Berlin correspondent, he was asked by the Nazis to leave Germany. Last Train From Berlin was the best seller he wrote a.bout this experience. His European staff includes David Shoebrun, Paris; Richard Hottelet, Berlin; Winston Burdett, Rome. LOWELL THOMAS This is the year that marks Lowell Thomas' twentieth anniversary on the air. (See the October RADIO MIRROR for Lowell's own story of the years he's spent bringing you the news.) Almost as impressive as his two decades on radio are his doctorates, twelve, and his books, forty. His most famous one is Lawrence of Arabia. Lowell is heard M.-F. on CBS. CECIL BROWN Mutual's commentator Cecil Brown holds one of the prized Peabody Awards for his radio headlining. He's also been honored by the Overseas Press Club and the National Headliners Club. Past performances have included broadcasting the invasion of Crete and reporting the sinking of the British cruiser Repulse by the Japanese — he'd been on it! FRANK EDWARDS Frank Edwards started his radio career as a special events broadcaster, now handles MBS's late-evening news series. He was born in Mattoan, III., in 1908, went to college at U.C.L.A. Politically a liberal, his crusades for progressive objectives have earned him a reputation as one of the most independent commentators. He's also a successful lecturer. iff EC GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT MBS's Major George Fielding Eliot is a Brooklyn-born military affairs expert whose name is widely known in writing and radio circles. Part of his youth was spent in Australia where his family had moved when he was eight. Eliot attended the U. of Melbourne's Trinity College. His first military experience was with the Australian Imperial Forces as a lieutenant. CEDRIC FOSTER , Cedric Foster, Mutual commentator, is acknowledged as one of the most astute analyzers of military information. A one time editor of the Hartford Times, he also has worked for the UP and the AP. His journalistic jaunts have taken him. all over the world but he prefers hisnative New England as a place 4o live. Foster is married and has two daughters. GABRIEL HEATTER Gabriel Heatter has been a radio institution ever since the evening in 1936 when he spoke extemporaneously for an hour over a hook-up at Trenton, N. J., where the Lindbergh baby kidnapper was being executed. Since then, the Manhattanborn, Brooklyn -bred Mutual commentator has found huge audiences for his sympathetic reporting of events. BILL HENRY Bill Henry is one of the few reporters who can say that he made his first broadcast in 1923. He spoke over a telephone-crystal set job, but it was sufficiently exciting to convince Bill that he should devote his future to the new medium. He's been in front of one version or another of a microphone ever since. Bill now has a daily five minute news spot over Mutual. WILLIAM HILLMAN William Hillman, veteran foreign correspondent, is now a permanent member of Mutual's Washington news staff. During his days in Europe he interviewed such shapers of destiny as Churchill, Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Mussolini. He is credited with breaking the first story of the British ultimatum to Germany over Poland. Hillman is also a Collier's Magazine editor. EVERETT HOLLES Experience as a war correspondent and foreign editor makes MBS's Everett Holies a natural for jobs behind the microphones in the nation's capital. Holies does a commentary program for MBS, is moderator for Reporters' Roundup, the program which allows listeners to ask questions, along with newspapermen, of a guest currently in the headlines. FULTON LEWIS, JR. Fulton Lewis, Jr., who has one of the Mutual network's largest audiences, was born in the city that he covered for so many years as a columnist and reporter, and from where his broadcasts now come. The city, of course, is Washington, D. C. He went to the University of Virginia, graduating from there in 1924. Fulton is married and has two children.