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Monday dawned, and Moscow still said nothing of Earl Browder's whereabouts. Brooks Atkinson cabled to the New York Times: "He has had sufficient time to reach Moscow, unpack his bag, shave, take a bath. . . . This bureau's staff of efficient secretaries, couriers, chauffeurs and writers-in that order of relative importance -cannot locate Earl. Let us know if you hear anything...
...matter how the winds of Soviet censorship may blow, the New York Times's droll, scholarly Correspondent Brooks Atkinson often contrives to get his message through from Moscow. One safe system: simply quote from the papers, and keep your afterthoughts dry. Last week a story in Izvestia caught his fancy. He passed it along: "Red Army troops are evacuating Iran amid many expressions of love and admiration at mass meetings of the people. . . . From Meshed Comes a bulletin: ... 'as our dear guests by their good behavior left pleasant impressions . . . the Iranian people love the Soviet people from...
...Army troops evacuating Manchuria," Atkinson added gently, "are reported to be carrying away similar expressions of love, gratitude and friendship...
Living Legend. At 41, Frank Herrington, a hefty (198 lbs.), lighthearted medic, is a famed old China hand. When Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was in Chungking, he described Herrington's reputation as "stupendous." Like many a U.S. country doctor, Herrington ministered to rich & poor alike; paid for treatment of a ricksha boy out of his own pocket, carried a gold watch inscribed...
...dead right now," he told the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, chuckling. "The doctors say that according to all the rules I cannot possibly be alive. . . . Now I can do anything I like. I am going to have a good time." His good time: reading American books and magazines-the New Yorker, the Satevepost, the late William Ellery Sedgwick's Herman Melville, Maxwell Anderson's verse plays (which he said ought to be called "worse" plays...