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Thompson will have able assistants in the two Russian girls who are part of TIME'S permanent staff in Moscow: dark-eyed, intelligent Nina Moustel and little Gallya the Courier, who is 21, has two children, and a husband in the Red Army she has not heard from in almost three years. Multilingual Nina (Russian, English, German, French) headed the staff of the scientific library at Moscow University before she became secretary to TIME-in-Moscow; Gallya's main job is to get our correspondent's reports to the Foreign Office for censoring (that takes anywhere from...
...copies go this way, and 13,000 of these are given away). Other copies are loaded into ATC planes bound for Corsica and Sardinia, and still others travel south to Naples and Capri and on to Taranto. Bundles of several hundred copies each are flown by air courier to MTOUSA (Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army) and MAAF (Mediterranean Army Air Forces) and 15th Army Group Headquarters, while still other copies are delivered to Army Post Exchanges, Red Cross clubs and restcamps throughout the area. And then the last remaining copies go to Rome kiosks where English-reading Italians snap...
...another notable step toward bringing the Navy's public relations up to its fighting arm's high standards. As short a time ago as the Saipan and Guam invasions, all on-the-spot reporting had to trickle back by courier to Pearl Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better...
Edstrom takes greatest pride, however, in the Courier-Journal, the largest liberal paper in the South. A long line of progressive owners and editors has made possible its uniquely independent plank, proving, Edstrom believes, that "honest publishers make honest newspapers, and honest journalism pays in the long...
...Southern Negro," according to Edstrom, "if you holler about social equality. That," he explains, "is a thing you can't legislate. I'm afraid that if we don't approach the problems in the right way," he warns, "we're going to have conflict, bloody conflict." The Courier-Journal has consistently campaigned for equal political and economic opportunities for Negroes, supporting several of their candidates in state and local elections...