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Even his enemies were struck with his heroic bearing. A zealous papist, describing the martyrdom of Huss, and of Jerome, who died soon after, said: “Both bore themselves with constant mind when their last hour approached. They prepared for the fire as if they were going to a marriage feast. They uttered no cry of pain. When the flames rose, they began to sing hymns; and scarce could the vehemency of the fire stop their singing.”—Ibid., b. 3, ch. 7. When the body of Huss had been wholly consumed, his ashes, with the soil upon which they rested, were gathered...

It has taken more than 40 years since Edward R. Murrow's retirement for CBS to wreck the brand name Morrow created for the network's news department. The current Rathergate fiasco is a sad commentary on the difficulty corporate cultures have remembering the values that made them great. And no one would have understood the gravity of this "mistake," as Dan Rather finally called it, more than Ed Murrow.... Murrow foresaw the end as well as the beginning. In a speech before the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 1958 Murrow warned: " . . . unless we get up off our...