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1. Eric Sevareid papers, 1909-2008

   51,400 items. 149 containers plus 2 oversize. 60.4 linear feet. 17 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist, radio and television commentator, and author. Includes correspondence, fan mail, radio and television scripts, news analyses, lectures, speeches, writings, book and subject files, awards, newspaper clippings, printed matter, a diary, photographs, and other papers. Primarily consists of scripts for Sevareid's radio and television news broadcasts and analyses documenting his career with the Columbia Broadcasting System from World War II as a correspondent in Burma, China, and western Europe; as chief Washington, D.C., correspondent from 1946 to 1959; and as news analyst and essayist until his retirement from CBS News in 1977.

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