CBS World News Today (12/26/43)

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Douglas Edwards

CBS World News Today

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

News on the radio ping.

[1rudeboy]

Don’t know anything about the guy, but those lapels mean he’s serious.

[GeronL]

bump

will ive a listen

[re_nortex]

Wasn't Edwards a leftist like his marxist bosses, Billy Paley and Eddie Murrow as well as his commie pal KKKronkite?

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Edwards

Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990) was America’s first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS’s first nightly news broadcast from 1948–1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News.

Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942, eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast The World Today as well as World News Today on Sunday afternoons. Edwards came to CBS after stints as a newscaster and announcer at WSB in Atlanta, Georgia and WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.

[GeronL]

WBBM Chicago

[henkster]

How come everybody wore gray back then?

[fso301]

How come everybody wore gray back then?

I've always wondered why they walked around so hurriedly.

[GeronL]

lol

[duckman]

“How come everybody wore gray back then?”

If it was anything like IBM dress code back then, you wore that color w/pinstripes so the customer would listen to your sales pitch, rather than be distracted by what you were wearing. Neutral color required!

[duckman]

“How come everybody wore gray back then?”

If it was anything like IBM dress code back then, you wore that color w/pinstripes so the customer would listen to your sales pitch, rather than be distracted by what you were wearing. Neutral color required!

[TADSLOS]

Thanks, Homer. Fascinating broadcast.

[OldPossum]

Douglas Edwards was an ole Alabama boy who graduated from the University of Alabama, IIRC.

I used to watch his 15-minute newscasts on CBS and was so impressed with his fluency. I cannot recall him flubbing much at all. Smooth as silk.

Somehow he got rid of his Southern accent—something difficult to do. Not a trace I could detect and I was a fellow Alabamian and would know. Strictly the approved Midwestern speech.