Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found, for example, five long cables from TIME'S Foreign News Editor, Charles Wertenbaker, filed from Gafsa within sound of the German guns. I found a long dispatch from correspondent Will Lang, who is also at the Tunisian front, and another from Jack Belden, who was with General Montgomery's men when they broke through the Mareth Line...
...eight years after it was born, the New York Times had one authentic foreign correspondent and he worked abroad only part of the time. He was Henry Raymond, one of the paper's co-founders (the other: Businessman George Jones). A dispatch that Correspondent Raymond wrote from Italy, an eyewitness account of the Battle of Solferino in the Austrian-Franco-Sardinian war, took 13 days to reach the U.S. by boat. Last week, the Times foreign staff included 34 men and two women† scattered on the globe's continents and seas. They send well over...
...foreign correspondent, covering the A.E.F. in 1918, he outwitted military censors skillfully. Once he sent a long, inane, seemingly pointless dispatch containing, for no apparent reason, the names and home addresses of several Irish New Yorkers. Astounded at first, the Times's great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda finally realized James must be trying to say something. He sent reporters to the addresses. Soon he learned that all the men named were members of New York's great "Fighting Sixty-Ninth." Result: a Times scoop on the news that the Fighting Sixty-Ninth was going into action...
...have confidence in you, we would not send you. We will not second-guess you. We will go along with you, or we will bring you home. go on, now; and don't get us into trouble!" No Timesman's dispatch is cut except for space reasons, ever materially changed except for the necessary addition, by the paper's twelve cable copyreaders, of "ands" and "thes" (left out of cables to save tolls...
...Pacific. In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), unassisted Army air power had finished off 22 Jap ships. The Navy had not been heard from, but last week A.P. Correspondent J. Norman Lodge, attached to Admiral William F. Halsey's South Pacific Command, sent this dispatch through naval censorship...