Nancy
She worked for Edward R. Murrow...when the news spoke the truth.
Nowadays she lives in South Carolina, and she has long gone by her married name of Nancy Neuman. But when she was a little child growing up as a first generation American in an Italian immigrant family, Nancy Isabel Cammarota hardly would have imagined a future that would have included a pioneer role working with perhaps the greatest newsperson of the 20th Century, Edward R. Murrow.
Murrow's World War II radio broadcasts that had transfixed and inspired a free world, made from a London besieged by Nazi bombers, were already years behind him when Nancy first joined his office, but other historic broadcasts, both on radio and television, were yet to come.
Edward R. Murrow (Egbert Roscoe Murrow) was born in 1908 in North Carolina, and died in 1965.
Nancy: First I want to warn you—I've just about forgotten everything about my days at CBS.
Nancy: In Port Chester in New York.
His profession was gardener, but aside from that, he built this beautiful castle-like house on our property.
From an old Greek school that burnt down, but he called up and asked if he could have the stones, because he'd been looking at them for years, and they said yes if he would cart them away, and he did.
I'd say about 5 or 6 years.
Oh yes, when I was, I think, a freshman in high school. It was the first time ever that I played hookey from school. I went into New York, all by myself, and I was scared stiff. I managed to find my way to the Paramount Theater, and I watched Sinatra from about the third row. Then, when I came out, I didn't know where I was going. But I found my way again, back to Grand Central Station, and I went home.
No. I was by myself, so there was nobody to scream with. You know, there were thousands of people screaming—girls, I should say—but I didn't scream. I just enjoyed it immensely.
The only Lifesavers factory in the United States*, the other one was in Canada. I worked there one summer, when I was going to college.
Yes. I got partial scholarship, and worked my way, also.
I do. It was the butterscotch which was so overwhelming.
No, not really, because the factory was quite a distance, it was almost on the outskirts of Portchester,
Yeh...
Green Mountain Junior College.
Just general...I didn't have anything in particular.