He was indeed reporting on the survival of the English-speaking peoples."[49] With his "manly, tormented voice",[50] Murrow contained and mastered the panic and danger he felt, thereby communicating it all the more effectively to his audience.[50] Using his trademark self-reference "this reporter", he did not so much report news as interpret it, combining simplicity of expression with subtlety of nuance.[51][50] Murrow himself said he tried to "describe things in terms that make sense to the truck driver without insulting the intelligence of the professor".[50] When he returned home for a visit late in 1941, Paley threw an "extraordinarily elaborate reception"[52] for Murrow at the Waldorf-Astoria.