What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

immediately following the Dick Clark variety show. S. Gunther wrote "I was at one time or another in charge of Daily News offices in London Berlin Vienna Moscow Rome and Paris and I also visited Poland Spain the Balkans and Scandinavia.

He is best known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud about the death of his teenage son Johnny Gunther from a brain tumor. John Gunther (August 30 1901 – May 29 1970) was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books.