Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of this letter is to correct an erroneous impression given by my March 28th Publisher's Letter on Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent. Discussing the growing difficulty of reporting the news behind the Balkans' Iron Curtain, the Letter said: "The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists ..." This was unjust to the small, hard-working group of U.S., British and other non-Communist foreign correspondents still doing their jobs in the Balkans' Communist countries. Correspondent Low was one of the first to call...
...Low's protest was seconded some days later by a letter from his ex-Balkans traveling companion, the New York Times' William H. Lawrence, now stationed in Washington. Lawrence knows the difficulties confronting a working correspondent in the Balkans, having been refused re-entry to Rumania and Bulgaria a year ago. It was he who took the photograph of Low that ran in my March 28th Letter. Its locale, Slobozia, is in Rumania...
...rescue work went on, the firemen made an alarming discovery-water pressure in the nearest hydrant was uselessly low; 15 precious minutes were lost running lines to outlets blocks away. Frantically, many a man fought his way into the building after relatives. Some succeeded, but most were driven back by heat and the smell of burning flesh. Building Superintendent Frank Ries went in to hunt for his wife and never came out again. Prospective Father Arnold Aderman watched his wife come down a ladder, got her home just in time to have her baby...
...three hours before the shaft could be pumped dry. Whitey went back down. "He deserves a knighthood," said a worker, "but he doesn't even have a job." Others relieved him. The lateral tunnel began to cave in. The low talk of the workmen was carried over the loudspeaker. "It's caving to beat the band," said the voice below. Timbers went down for shoring. The men worked on, regardless of danger, or bone-deep fatigue. Little O. A. Kelly leaned back wearily when he was pulled to the surface, and swore: "I'm going in there...
...represented a crisis in Labor Party affairs, as was promptly shown by the licking Labor took in the London County Council elections (see above). For years, Laborite leaders had appeased the workers' demands for higher wages by pointing out that the Socialist government was at least keeping prices low. Now there was bound to be trouble. Said Socialist M.P. Mark Hewitson of the powerful General and Municipal Workers' Union: "I give a warning. The writing is on the wall and the footprints are on the sand. The government has either got to help or else...