Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prophetically, Barney Darnton's last dispatch was a measured appraisal of his hazardous job and the mood of the fighting men with whom he served. He wrote in part...
TIME'S Correspondent Theodore H. White last week cabled from Chungking this dispatch on starvation in China...
...enough of his evening rest (reading, movies, occasional dinners out with Mrs. Marshall) to see that he is disturbed only in extreme emergency. Last summer the General spent his free Saturday nights and Sundays at his country place near Leesburg, Va. An Army messenger, arriving importantly with a vital dispatch, found the Chief of Staff up a tree, pruning the limbs...
TIME Correspondent James Aldridge last week cabled this dispatch from the Soviet-Iranian Border...
Washington, which had not been informed of the unusual award, learned about it from an A.P. dispatch, ordered Lieut. Ridout to "capture" the E forthwith. Tactfully the crestfallen lieutenant told the Globe-News that the Navy wanted its E back. Old Tack roared: "Tell 'em to send the Marines," and headed for the safe...