Word: durdin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projects, a noodle factory for the needy, several island fishing villages. They showed up at a Hindu wedding, wandered through a Macao gam bling casino, edged to within 100 yds. of Communist China. A U.S. consular official gave them a two-hour briefing; veteran New York Times Correspondent Tillman Durdin conducted a long bull session on Red China. Equally educating were the solitary strolls that many took through teeming Asian slums, a revelation to youngsters whose lives have been confined to comely U.S. suburbs. If education means widening perception, Teacher Jaeger is on to something. Muses Student Dave Newby...
...since renewed the invitation. On the assumption that the visas would be forthcoming, a number of old China hands began packing their bags. Among them: the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech, the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter, the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, TIME-LIFE'S James Burke (who was a TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision to let U.S. newsmen into China, said the broadcast, is "completely unacceptable to the Chinese people"-unless...