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Cloud, Stanley and Lynn Olson. The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism. New York: Houghton Mimin, 1996. 424 pp. $27.95.
Budding journalists who were glued enviously to World War II radio news from Europe, as told by Edward R. Murrow and his "boys," will relive the experience with this reading. The varying emotions felt then are felt again but now with more understanding and less envy because of the struggles to get the news heard.
In addition to William R. Shirer, the "boys" who reported under battle conditions included Cecil Brown, Winston Burdett, Charles Collinwood, William Downs, Thomas Grandin, Richard C. Hottelet, Larry LeSueur, Eric Sevareid, and Howard K. Smith. The book demonstrates that they were as talented a group of reporters as ever assembled. Mary Marvin Breckinridge was the only woman counted among them. Whether she should be is a question, not because of her gender but because of...