Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
...love with her, and have a little pity-or some feasible substitute. But she is too much absorbed in whether Warner Anderson, a rather sour-eyed journalist she once knew abroad, still loves her, and she crudely exploits the bellhop's affections in order to get another interview with the reporter. This begins to be really painful when Mr. Walker courts her in a hired dress suit, under the impression that she wants to make him her prince consort...
...Japan but not the answers. Correspondents in Washington and Tokyo last week had a hard time finding out from the U.S. Army how occupation policies were shaping up. Typical interview in Tokyo...
...Umezu - the No. 1 Japanese war criminal of them all, billiard-bald, razor-tongued Hideki Tojo, who as Premier led his people to war on December 7, 1941, took matters into his own hands. The day after two Associated Press correspondents forced their way into his house for an interview, U.S. Army intelligence officers turned up to take Tojo away for questioning. The irate warmonger made faces at them througlf a window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given...
...Gaulle's office came a letter from a Committee of Five, representing Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists, the League for the Rights of Man and the General Confederation of Labor (Confederation Generate du Travail-France's C.I.O., claiming 3,500,000 members). The committee requested an interview to discuss France's electoral machinery, which leftists say gives the rural population a greater voice than city workers. The letter was signed by the C.G.T.'s burly, goateed Secretary General, Léon Jouhaux...