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...much perhaps as anyone else, Carr Vattel Van Anda made the New York Times the grey eminence it has become. Adolph Ochs set the goal: "All the News That's Fit to Print"; Van Anda got the news, saw that it was fit, and printed it. He treated the Versailles Treaty with the competitive zest of a tabloid editor covering a beautiful blonde's murder trial, used 24 telegraph and telephone lines to transmit the full text from Washington, and gave it 62 columns of type. No other U.S. newspaper ran it in full...
...cadet school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...
...foreign correspondent, covering the A.E.F. in 1918, he outwitted military censors skillfully. Once he sent a long, inane, seemingly pointless dispatch containing, for no apparent reason, the names and home addresses of several Irish New Yorkers. Astounded at first, the Times's great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda finally realized James must be trying to say something. He sent reporters to the addresses. Soon he learned that all the men named were members of New York's great "Fighting Sixty-Ninth." Result: a Times scoop on the news that the Fighting Sixty-Ninth was going into action...
Careful, poised, experienced "Jimmy" James became the Times's managing editor in 1932, succeeding Van Anda, To Jimmy James goes the major credit for the Times's superb coverage of World War II. To the carefully chosen reporters he sends abroad James gives tremendous freedom. A departing correspondent is told, in effect: "The Times's attitude is that you are our ambassador...
Italy carries away top honors in The World in Flames with three picture-stealing scenes. The first shows bearded Count Dino Grandi on a visit to Washington in 1931 announcing that "Italy-a wants-a peace-a. Italy-a wants-a cooperation-a anda understanding-a amonga all-a the nations-a of the world-a." The second is Mussolini standing on a speaker's platform puffing, pouting and pleased over the cheers of his people. The third reproduces one of the most tragic and dramatic moments in modern history-Haile Selassie pleading for aid before the League...