Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami Herald's mysterious visitor, who called herself Evelyn Hill, produced a news tip that made city-room ears prick up: the Havana whereabouts of Austin Frank Young, 38, Miami-based adventurer who, sentenced to 30 years for conspiring against the Fidel Castro regime, had broken out of a Cuban jail in Pinar del Rio province less than 24 hours earlier...
While the plumpish, corseted blonde doled out details (she was a "friend" of the escapee, who had phoned her from Havana for money), the Herald put in a quick call to Miami International Airport. There, by luck, the paper had a man waiting for the next plane to Havana. What's more, Reporter James Coe Buchanan was just the man for the story. On previous Cuban assignments, he had hidden out with Castro rebels, filed eyewitness accounts of the bloody skirmishing. And last summer, when Castro troops trapped a tiny invasion force from the Dominican Republic, wiry, 43-year...
...morning was Austin Frank Young. But he looked the part-bruised, scratched and haggard. And he had a hair-raising yarn to spill. Scribbling furiously, Buchanan took it all down, airmailed home the fugitive's own account of his escape, which was promptly copyrighted by the Herald and splashed all over Page One. It made vivid reading: the ordeal ("I didn't know which was worse, the horrible crawl across the yard or the swamps, the muck and the rocks"), the ride to Havana in a farmer's truck, the friend there who supplied fresh clothing...
...next morning, Herald Reporter Buchanan was through, and preparing to go back to Miami. But he had one more mission to perform: "Young had asked me to get him a bandage for a swollen ankle, and a straw hat and dark glasses. I was willing to get the bandage-I'd do that for anybody-but nothing else, since I didn't want to get involved...
...weekly public affairs program in prime evening time on topics ranging from alcoholism to the summit. Plans were jelling for TV Critic John Crosby to appear on a new CBS show devoted to books, arts, entertainment. Edward R. Murrow's longtime associate, Fred W. Friendly, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist Marie Torre: "Even the elevator operators here at CBS look at us differently. It's as if we've been put on a pedestal...