Word: clete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pryor reported that at first, among the crew, "nobody believed it." He heard a sailor remark shortly, "It's like somebody dying in your own family." Reported Douglas Edwards from London: "Everyone here wandered if there couldn't be some mistake." Reported the Blue's Clete Roberts from Rome: "I met an American soldier. He came up to me and said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky & Prayers. As poignant as any broadcast comment was a quiet...
...flimsy wooden house, something like a run-down American beach cottage, in the town of Tacloban. Several correspondents were staying there. Asahel ("Ace") Bush of the Associated Press and John Terry of the Chicago Daily News were in one room, Stanley Gunn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clete Roberts of the Blue Network and I in another, John Dowling of the Chicago Sun in a third...
...there was no hole.. I grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted, and even held it himself for a while. Clete Roberts ignored an injured wrist and started out to find a doctor and ambulance...
Australia, Sister Antonia gave an exclusive radio interview to the Blue Network's Clete Roberts, who was using the new portable wire recorder (TIME...