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...even-voiced, levelheaded Charles Collingwood got ready to return from Europe for a lecture tour...
...Paris is a quiet place to spend your leave just now," reported Charles Collingwood, "and at night it's quietest of all. . . . The soldiers . . . walk along the dark and quiet avenues . . . and think that all those stories they'd heard about Paris night life were pretty exaggerated...
...North Africa for CBS, Collingwood found that he could not cover the front and broadcast too. So he stayed in Algiers...
Three Beats. Collingwood's bedroom sessions convinced him that something was rotten in North Africa. He managed to convey the idea by air to the U.S. when he finally got through. "I honestly didn't try to evade censorship," says Colling wood, "but sometimes I'd get so upset at the news that I guess my voice was affected." Collingwood got three big beats (thanks to his diligence and radio's speed) : the first news the U.S. had of Darlan's assassination, the execution of his assailant, the roundup of the twelve Frenchmen who assisted...
...many people in North Africa who met Collingwood was Cinemactress Kay Francis, now back in the U.S. from an Army entertainment tour. Said she: "He is the only man in Africa who knows where to get a suit pressed...