Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was starkly apparent to newsmen in Washington. Optimism, much of which had emanated from the White House (whether or not it was intended), began to fade early in the week, as even dull minds began to suspect the phony reports from Cairo and London about the fighting in the desert. When Mr. Churchill arrived, people said: "We didn't think it was that...
...been to Russia, but Russia is almost the only place in Europe where he has not been since he started work for TIME in 1931. He has followed the news into Warsaw, Berlin. Prague, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest. He has interviewed newsmakers in Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, Cairo...
...seaplane carried him to Crete. Nazi soldiers, dropping out of the sky, drove him on again. He and his party fled once more; guided over the mountains by Capitan ("The Goat") Volanis, a fierce little Cretan guerrila. At the seacoast, he embarked on a British destroyer. From Cairo via Capetown he reached London, set up his Government-in-Exile...
Perhaps you read in your newspaper that Harry Zinder, head of the TIME and LIFE Cairo office, was hurt in an airplane crash last week on his way to the Western Desert to cover the great tank battle in Libya...
...thousands of words of spot news reports from the uneasy front covered by Zinder-and a large part of Zinder's job is to satisfy the editors' requests for background in formation to make the significance of these bulletins clearer. And other correspondents are frequently in the Cairo office-George Rodger, for example, is there about now on his way home from New Delhi; Hart Preston spent some time in Cairo recently en route to a special job in Ankara...