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  • The OSS officer Duncan Lee had gone down in the same plane as Sevareid and had told her that the newsman had been cool-headed enough to rescue one item before he jumped: a quart of gin he had promised a friend in Chungking.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Ravenholt had beat out all the competition by raising Sevareid on his walkie-talkie and reported to the world that they had all parachuted to safety in the Burmese jungle.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Sevareid didn't want to come on at first, but I dubbed off a piece of tape I had of his coverage on the Italian front around 1944, and I sent it to him at CBS.

    An Interview with John Dunning, author of Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime 2010

  • He and Sevareid roomed together in 1940, when the blitz was at its worst.

    An Interview with John Dunning, author of Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime 2010

  • The OSS officer Duncan Lee had gone down in the same plane as Sevareid and had told her that the newsman had been cool-headed enough to rescue one item before he jumped: a quart of gin he had promised a friend in Chungking.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Ravenholt had beat out all the competition by raising Sevareid on his walkie-talkie and reported to the world that they had all parachuted to safety in the Burmese jungle.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • A friend took Sevareid to task for dashing the student's dreams.

    Will Weaver: Ten Reasons Not to Write Your Novel Will Weaver 2011

  • Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley, and my then personal favorite, CBS 'essayist/editorialist Eric Sevareid.

    Why I Write 2008

  • I could use them any way I wanted. i could mimic a news story, or pen my own “Sevareid” - style editorial.

    Why I Write 2008

  • I do it because I'm the kid who read The Times at four, loved Eric Sevareid and Jimmy Breslin at seven, and thrilled when I found out what infinitesimal meant in the dictionary.

    Why I Write 2008

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