War came close to Edward Roscoe Murrow. Three times, bombs destroyed his London CBS offices. The day after he moved into office No. 4, another raid gutted the synagogue across the street. He flew 20 sorties with U.S. and British pilots, sailed the Channel on a minesweeper, lay in a London gutter to broadcast the sound of an air raid. This week, after nine years in England, Ed Murrow was off to the U.S. for good. But before he left, he spoke an eloquent "Farewell and Hail" over the BBC:
"I first came to England 16 years ago. . . . Your...
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