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Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...dramatic contrast, John McCarthy, who was also held for five years, bounced back into freedom looking as if he had just been away for the weekend. Trim and fit, the 34-year-old Briton fielded questions with grace and humor and seemed more than ready to resume his private life and even his public duties as a television reporter. Back in Britain at the Royal Air Force base in Lyneham, McCarthy took time out from being examined to deliver a letter from his captors to the U.N. Secretary-General, tootle around the base in a borrowed car and take...
...Tolerable" was the word John McCarthy carefully chose to describe living conditions during his most recent months as a hostage in Lebanon. He assured the families of three of the men who had been held with him -- Americans Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland and fellow Briton Terry Waite -- that when he last saw them, "they were in good health and good spirits...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...