Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Correspondent George Johnston last week cabled this dispatch from New Guinea...
...grounds of Missouri's Capitol at Jefferson City repose three old cannon from bygone wars. Every time that Ralph Coghlan, a ruddy, owlish man who breathes fire and snorts the editorial page of the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thought about them it made him mad. He thought they belonged on the nation's scrap pile. But Missouri's earnest, toothy Governor Forrest C. Donnell said he could not prove that the State owned the cannon, therefore could not give them away. This made Ralph Coghlan even madder...
...first account of the incident, the Post-Dispatch ran a kidding story, dubbed Stearns "the General," published his picture wiggling the "V-for-Victory" sign. Finally it had to admit Editor Coghlan's part in the prank. This moved Governor Donnell into action. He ordered Editor Coghlan arrested for larceny. Righteously the Governor said: "This is outrageous . . . filled with a spirit of anarchy and disrespect for law. . . . The law is going to be enforced, the Post-Dispatch notwithstanding...
...raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P-38s (see p. 83) made a sweep across Tunisia's waist to attack Axis concentrations near Sfax. One dispatch told of Allied paratroops occupying an airdrome from which British Spitfires took off 30 minutes later to challenge the Luftwaffe...
...Like U.S. newspaper correspondents in Moscow, Lesueur had to rely for most of his information on communiques, the Army newspaper The Red Star, other military journals. News beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...