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...EDGAR S. HUBBARD...
Reporting on the land of wonder in 1960 was the task of Brisbane Stringer Fred Hubbard, a transplanted Chicago newspaperman who has spent 13 years covering Australia, and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow. They spent three weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
...reporters anywhere cover more ground than TIME'S Australian correspondent, Fred B. Hubbard, 39, who newspapered in Chicago before moving to Brisbane twelve years ago. Hubbard's beat embraces 2,948,366 sq. mi., some of them so untamed that when a story takes him to Australia's Northern Territory, he sets foot on barren plains where aborigines still hunt wallabies. He has reported on the diet of platypuses, the music of the bushmen, and kuru, the strange back-country ailment in which the afflicted literally laugh themselves to death. Last week, just returned from an assignment...
Poking about Hanuabada Village, a Port Moresby native quarter, Hubbard came across the village council clerk, Rima Gavera, sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...
...After a shaky start, they beat Fisher and O'Connell, 6-4, 6-1. Gallwey and Vinton, playing second, routed Sager and Bob Chelberg, 6-1, 6-0, and Pete Smith and Bob Schwartzman, at number three, completed the shutout with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Hubbard and Yelverton...