Word: gunther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brain-picking, Gunther was so likable and professionally esteemed that he was elected first president of Vienna's Anglo-American Press Association in 1931. With his small, assertive first wife Frances, Gunther was as famed even then for doughty partying as for hard work. In his spare time, fast-working Gunther wrote dozens of political pieces for magazines ranging from Foreign Affairs to Woman's Home Companion...
Footnote to History. The germ of Inside Europe was planted in Gunther by Harper's Editor Cass Canfield after IQSI'S Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, created a demand for uninhibited political reporting. In 1934 Gunther reluctantly agreed that he might do a book on Europe's political leaders if Harper's put up what he considered an "impossible" $5,000 advance. He got the advance, slaved over the book at night while working in the Daily News's London bureau. With help, as he acknowledged, from "colleagues...
With less than $2,500 in savings, Gunther left the Chicago Daily News for the third and last time. He has not worked on a newspaper since. But in 1943 Gunther served the whole U.S. press as pool reporter at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Allied general headquarters during the Sicilian invasion, later published a Sicilian invasion diary, D Day (dedicated to Actress Miriam Hopkins "with love...
...Gunther did not include in the book his own footnote to history. When the U.S.'s invasion commander, Major General George Patton, refused to let Eisenhower ashore early, it was Gunther who spotted a quiet Sicilian cove from their destroyer. He told Ike: "General, I can write a story that will make every newspaper in the world tomorrow. The first paragraph will be this: 'The commander in chief of the Allied Forces of Liberation set foot on the soil of occupied Europe for the first time today.'" Says Gunther: "Ike gave me a long, dirty look...
Death Be Not Proud. Insider Gunther, who says he "would give all those Insides to have written one good short story," is still writing bad ones. He has published four uncelebrated novels. His longest-remembered work, nonetheless, is less likely to be one of the Insides than a short (261 pages) book called Death Be Not Proud-a tender, harrowing vignette of valor and suffering...