Born in
Boston, Massachusetts, Howe joined CBS in June 1942, doing the opening news summary on the radio network's
The World Today newscast. He left CBS in 1947 to join
ABC. In the fall of 1955, he hosted four episodes of the 26-week prime time series
Medical Horizons on ABC before he was replaced in that capacity by
Don Goddard. In the early 1950s, Howe was an associate professor of journalism and communications at the University of Illinois. Howe moderated the first ever televised presidential primary debate in 1956, between
Democratic candidates
Adlai Stevenson and
Estes Kefauver. He also moderated the fourth and final
Kennedy/
Nixon debate on October 21, 1960, which had the topic of foreign affairs. Howe retired from broadcasting in 1974. He died from
cancer of the larynx. ==Bibliography==