Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin' Till Martin Gits Here. When the Germans rehearsed their invasion of Luxembourg a few days before the act, Bob Casey (Chicago Daily News) put the story on the wires...
...Casey's dispatches are a strange combination of spot news, fantasy and feature material. "When you've got two details for a story," he says, "why look for a third?" That theory, which would probably lead a less able man to the doghouse, has always worked fine...
...Casey joined the Field Artillery after the entry of the U.S. into World War I. He was thrice cited for bravery under fire, came out a bemedaled captain. His journal of that war, The Cannoneers Have Hairy Ears, was the third of some 20 books he has to his credit. His experience in the artillery came in handy when he was in Cuba in 1933 covering the revolution. When Cubans outside the National Hotel kept missing the establishment, Casey took over, scored a bull's-eye on his first shot...
Wars are not the only things that have sent Casey abroad. He once traveled 33,500 miles through two hurricanes and four full gales to bring back 20,000 feet of motion-picture film showing the stone idols of a vanished race on Easter Island...
...Casey's relations with the News have been cordial, except for a bit of trouble some years ago when he was asked to cover an Illinois wolf hunt on an expense account of $10. His itemized list included such expenditures as: "To rent car Chicago to Springfield,1?; gas for same, 1?; oil for same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane...