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Gallery  Session:         Page of 1029   Yes. You discussed that
once before. I know Quentin Reynolds was one of your big wartime
authors. Tell about him.   Quentin Reynolds started his career
like Westbrook Pegler did: in the sports department, covering
the Brooklyn Dodgers and writing color stories. At the outbreak
of the War, he was sent to London. There it was discovered that
he had a mellifluous and beautiful voice. So they transformed
him temporarily into a star broadcaster. He was the man who
broadcast all of the big Nazi bombing raids of London.   Well,
Edward Murrow did, too.   Quent worked with Murrow. Murrow gave
the news. Quent did the color stories. He was very warm and
colorful and a born optimist. It was very nice to hear Quent's
reassuring stories about how the English were holding out--
which, indeed, they were.  He became a hero in England because
he brought hope to peop