Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco News, and blond Charlotte Louise Fitz Henry, Chicago night trunk-wire editor for the Associated Press. Others: Robert Joseph Manning, Washington U.P. staffman; Ben Yablonky, PM foreign news rewrite man; Cary Robertson, the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday editor; Arthur Wallace Hepner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter; James Batal, OWI feature writer; Richard Edgar Stockwell, Minneapolis's WCCO-CBS associate news editor; Frank West Hewlett, United Press war correspondent; Leon Svirsky, TIME'S science editor...
...more than 2% effective . . . they don't worry us very much." But the weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There is no use denying the fact that damage by Kamikazes to units of the fleet has been much more severe than the people at home believe...
...party were her seven-year-old daughter Edda (named for Edda Musso lini Ciano), a nursemaid, a German lieu tenant colonel and his orderly. To officers of the U.S. 19th Infantry Division, said a New York Times dispatch, the lieutenant colonel presented an order from an un named SHAEF major general, requesting that Frau Goring be given all assistance...
Same day Moscow's Red Star jumped on a Christian Science Monitor dispatch from Istanbul as "a most stupid invention . . . shocking lie." Retorted the Monitor, which, like all but Russian papers, is kept out of most of the Balkans: "If our Balkan coverage has limitations, we would be glad for permission from the Soviet Government to expand it by placing correspondents [there...
Once he had discovered the delights of breaking censorship, Cortesi kept at it. Modestly, in the usual third person, he reported: "The dispatch . . . struck the military Government with the force of a high-explosive bomb. . . . Excited consultations . . . took place ... to decide . . . whether anything could be done to counteract the disastrous impression created throughout the continent by what he had written." Last week Argentina's Minister of the Interior summoned Cortesi, warned him "not to be surprised at any thing that may happen to you." Arnaldo Cortesi, to the amazement of all (presumably including himself), found himself acclaimed far & wide...