Posted in Just A Bite, tagged edward r murrow, egbert murrow on November 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Back in his home state of North Carolina to speak on foreign policy, TV Newsman Edward R. Murrow was button holed in Charlotte by a reporter: When and why had Murrow changed his name from Egbert to Edward? “Caught squarely, ex-Logger Murrow grinned and replied: ‘I did that when I was 13 or 14 years […]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged andy griffith, charles kuralt, charlotte news, edward r murrow, eyewitness to history, no time for sergeants, walter cronkite on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
” ‘Eyewitness to History’ (CBS), which takes up the top news story of each week and analyzes it in respectable detail, is a good example of the sort of first-rate service television can perform. … As impressive as the show itself is its young analyst-narrator, Charles Kuralt, 25, who wrote a human interest column for […]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged billy strayhorn, billy taylor, dizzy gillespie, edward r murrow, john coltrane, kitty hawk, max roach, ninbe simone, ronald mcnair, thelonous monk, wright brothers on March 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
– Other than the first appearance of the Miscellany link dump, what are the 10 “most significant events in North Carolina history”? – What, you thought Wilbur and Orville flew to Kitty Hawk? – John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Max Roach and Billy Taylor born here, Dizzy Gillespie educated here, Billy Strayhorn inspired here […]
