Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareidwas a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys". He was the first to report the fall of Paris when it was captured by the Germans during World War II. Traveling into Burma during World War II, his aircraft was shot down and he was rescued from behind enemy lines by a search and rescue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth26 November 1912
CityVelva, ND
CountryUnited States of America
The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
Most problems are caused by solutions.
Saints are usually killed by their own people.
The chief source of problems is solutions.
Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.
The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.