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Sunday Morning, February B, 1942A' lt;t'\? ;. .' i.v . a* ^ \vn11F.DWARI) R. MURROW, shown broadcasting from entrance to an air raid shelter.Edward R Murrow, chief of the European staff of the Columbia Broadcasting system, has been bombed out of three offices in LondonExploding bombs, air raid sirens and grim sessions of Parliament, held while planes battled overhead, All have been part of his daily frind for the past two years.Now, he is back In the United Bts'es for the first time since the war’s beginning, and will give an eve-witness report of Europe under fire when he speaks here tomorrow night at the Hardin-Simmonsuniversity auditorium.Beats to his lecture on This Is London, or Britain, the United States and the War, scheduled for Mondav night at 8 are priced at 55 cents for students and men in uniform, with 83 cents for reserved. They are on sale at Sloan's drug store downtown, and at HSU. ON AIR ONCE WHEN HITMurrow has been much a part of the English scene from the beginning of the war. During dark days when nazi bombers were constantly overhead he was at the microphone daily, at the proper second.ready to tell of the day’s news. Three times the CBS offices were blasted out, and he was actually on the air at one time when the building in which he was working was hit.Murrow s sensitive, behind-the-new* reporting covered The warfrom the “sitzkrieg” in its earlystages, through the failures of the British in Norway, the disaster at Dunkirk, the battle of Britain, rightthrough the battle of the Atlantic to the present day.He developed a new kind of radio reporting to cover a new kind of war. He spent every Available moment, day and night, talking toArvathe people of England—clerks, shopgirls, air-raid wardens, dockyardworkers, housewives. For these people. during the days when Hitler's air armadas ranged over the British Isles, death was closer than to the men actually under arms as the enemy concentrated on bombing raids over populous cities.This Is the story he will tell in his lecture. He will tell it as one who has actually been a part of the British scene during these past two years of war.
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 08, 1942
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