Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until Dunkirk Mary Welsh was the only woman war correspondent with the R.A.F. in France, and before that she was at Munich and in the Sudetenland when Hitler's troops marched over the border. She was working for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express then-but when the Nazi tanks rumbled into Paris she lit out two jumps ahead, got through to London, and took a job on trial with TIME. Six weeks later Bureau Chief Walter Graebner called her "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London." And Graebner does not toss bouquets around...
...Angeles [Evening] Herald and Express of May 29 [published a photograph] showing the meeting of General Homma and General Wainwright on May 5. Are you able to reconcile this with the following from TIME, March 16: "After an honorable funeral, the late General Homma's ashes were flown to Tokyo for internment in an honorable shrine...
...inundated with posh invitations in their spare time. Said one, after dining with several titles: "Aren't there any plain people around here?" A most touching letter from a North England elderly widowed miner offered "to share my bed with a Pittsburgh miner." When the London Daily Express printed a box: Take an American Soldier Home to Tea on July 4th, the friendly British queued at headquarters extending invitations, expecting soldiers...
...months passed they have taken on added meaning for TIME'S staff. They still express, better than anything new we could put on paper, TIME'S attitude toward its job as part of America's wartime press...
...College of Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg, South Africa; another worked for the AP in Copenhagen until the Nazis came; still another ran a Wall Street investment office practically single-handed for two years . . . And our most erudite is an art and archeology graduate of the University of Paris, got her doctorate at Columbia...