Excerpt from the 1961 Dateline for Best Radio and TV Reporting from
Abroad Award:
Best Radio and TV Reporting from Abroad

TV AWARD: CBS Eyewitness to History:
“The Road Ahead,” an account of Eisenhower’s return from the Summit

“The Road Ahead” was the climax to six shows
presented by CBS Eyewitness in that one week last May when the Paris Big Four Summit
meeting collapsed. It shows a disappointed President Eisenhower getting a
blizzard-like welcome in Lisbon and a wifely embrace at Andrews Air Force Base.
The President’s face was lined and sad as he spoke: “My good friends and fellow
citizens, after a trip of this kind you can well understand what it means to me
to have this kind of a welcome….it was a mystery and remains a mystery as to why
at this particular moment the Soviets chose so to distort and overplay the U-2
incident that they obviously wanted no talks of any kind, and in fact made it impossible
to begin them.” Also included in the show were shots of Khrushchev riding
through East Berlin, an examination of Russian motives and a forecast of
possible future courses of action. Eyewitness, a weekly half-hour news show, is
produced by Leslie Midgley.

RADIO AWARD: Edwin Newman, NBC Radio

                                For his
reporting from abroad.

Edwin Newman, NBC’s Paris bureau chief and the only
NBC News correspondent to cover London, Rome and Paris, has one of the most
impressive travel records in the business. He has flown more than 100,000 miles
on NBC assignments and has crossed the Atlantic 16 times. A native New Yorker,
Newman speaks French fluently and is known as a superb writer in any news medium.
He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1940, did graduate work at
Louisiana State University in 1941, then worked for INS and UP in Washington,
before entering the navy in 1942. He was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant. He
became a full-time NBC News Correspondent in London in 1952.