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...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
Waifs from the West. The Soviets admitted them-with some misgivings about Capa (who, in any country, talks and looks like an enemy alien) and his cameras. "The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons," says Steinbeck, "and a man with a camera is suspected and watched." To a polite, but suspicious young man at VOKS, the cultural relations office in Moscow, they tried to explain their mission...
...Russians have a definite liking for Americans but are convinced that we plan to invade them," John Steinbeck and Robert Capa told the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon after debarking at Logan airport...
...average peasant is probably thinking that "the masses will eat tomorrow," as the result of this week's Soviet deflation program, Capa observed. "All he cares about is his bread and cabbage and how the end of rationing will mean a great deal more...
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa, both just returned from a special news assignment in Russia, will be guests of the Nieman Fellows tonight at the journalists' regular bi-monthly dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston...