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
You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.