Milestones: Oct. 14, 1985

DIED. Charles Collingwood, 68, debonair CBS radio and television correspondent who over four decades covered World War II, the White House and Viet Nam; of cancer; in New York City. Collingwood joined CBS in 1941 as part of Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's London team. He was the network's first U.N. correspondent and the first U.S. television newsman to visit North Viet Nam. In 1963 he won a Peabody Award for his televised tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy.

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