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t#ey M u r r o w makes friends and his friends make news J OHN DALY once said of Edward R. Murrow, “That guy is the luck¬ iest so-and-so alive. The day Roy Campanella hits a home run to break up a World Series game is the same day that Campy is scheduled to ap¬ pear on the debut of Ed’s new TV show, Person-to-Person.” What John would be the first to admit is that Ed does not just trust to Providence in such matters. As one of the Nation’s most astute newsmen, Ed over the years has worked up last¬ ing friendships with some of the high¬ est and mightiest people on this planet, and such connections help when it comes to scoring a newsbeat. In addition, not too many newsmen command the respect for integrity that Murrow does. So luck really plays a negligible part. Luck, however, entered into it back on December 7, 1941. Eld, home from covering the London blitz for CBS, was invited to the White House for dinner on that fateful day, chiefly so that he could give the President a first hand report on the blitz. When Pearl Harbor intervened, Ed and his wife Janet ate with Mrs. Roosevelt while FDR took" up more important matters. After lingering at the White House until after midnight, Ed finally got in to see the President. Over sandwiches and beer, he told of the blitz and then heard the President relate the disas¬ trous events at Pearl Harbor. Ed re¬ members particularly the President beating his fist on the table as he told of the planes destroyed “on the ground, by God, on the ground!” Unfortunately, there was one im¬ portant hitch to all this. National se¬ curity could have been endangered by the highly confidential information the President was passing on, so it was understood that Murrow would never be able to use the story. The new Person-to-Person show, which Ed staunchly maintains will not 10