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Long-faced Herbert Lionel Matthews, 46, is the kind of correspondent who makes the New York Times proud of its foreign-news coverage. Seasoned by a decade of wars (in Ethiopia, Loyalist Spain, Italy, India, France), he holds a top job on the biggest staff (55 men) that any U.S. newspaper maintains abroad. His bosses know their London bureau head as a deadly serious, high-strung reporter who makes his share of wrong guesses, but strives to make sense for tomorrow's historians as well as today's cable editors...
...exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
...company of other savory persons who spend their time at it? During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power...
Died. Jack Nichols, 49, T.W.A.'s vice president in charge of international operations, onetime Congressman from Oklahoma (who headed a House committee investigating airplane crashes); in an Army 6-25 crash; on an airline survey flight from Asmara, Eritrea, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
Between such ventures Wild Bill sandwiched jaunts abroad. As an observer in Ethiopia he had a tent next door to Marshal Badoglio's. In Spain he watched the Axis rehearse its new techniques...