Jim Axelrod would have loved to go to the Harvey Cedars Cedars Shellfish 50th anniversary reunion, but he had bigger fish to fry.

Axelrod is the chief investigative correspondent for CBS news and also executive editor of the “Eye on America” franchise, which is part of the “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.” He was one of CBS News’ embedded correspondents in Iraq and the first TV reporter to broadcast live from Saddam International Airport, now Baghdad International Airport, after its…