Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day (November 27, 1941) the Chief of Naval Operations sent a message to the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, which stated in substance that the dispatch was to be considered a war warning...
...reporter,* which told a grim and exciting story of the brief Balkan campaign. Robert St. John, then an A.P. man in Belgrade, followed the campaign from Yugoslavia to Egypt. What he has to say reads less like history than like a huge, super-delayed, super-exciting news dispatch...
...later be exchanged, there was last week a lost battalion of 22 correspondents in the Philippines who vanished two days before Manila's fall. Presumably they were with General MacArthur's forces on Bataan Peninsula. Only A.P.'s Clark Lee got out a brief dispatch-about three soldiers who escaped capture by playing dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon U.P.'s Darrell Berrigan lay dangerously ill of cerebral malaria...
With a now-it-can-be-told flick of the typewriter, Chicago Daily Newsman Leland Stowe thus began a sensational dispatch on the No. 1 bottleneck of Allied world strategy...
...Japanese bombed Rangoon, devastated the neighborhood of his hotel. He moved to another. On Christmas the Japanese razed that hotel with incendiaries. Finally cadging a ride by plane to Lashio and another to Kunming, much-traveled Correspondent MacDonald arrived in China, wrote his dispatch, then proceeded to Chungking to wind up his 4,700-mile trip in his usual unruffled state...