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
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something,
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
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.