Word: mccann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Red Cross stretcher-bearers picked up their load and headed across the railroad bridge linking Red China with Hong Kong. Loudspeakers on the Chinese side opened up with martial airs. But on the stretcher, Robert Ezra McCann appeared to hear neither the music nor his wife's whisper, "Now we are out." He stared blankly into the China skies. After ten years in Red China's jails, McCann was free...
Born 60 years ago of U.S. missionary parents in the Chinese coastal city of Chefoo, Robert McCann considered China his home. When the Japanese overran the country in the late 19305, he lingered on, clinging to his auto business in Tientsin. Interned after Pearl Harbor, he was repatriated in an exchange of U.S. and Japanese internees in 1943. But at war's end. he hurried back to his business in Tien tsin. His wife Flora remained behind in California with their three children. Mc Cann prospered even through the Chinese civil war. And when the Communists took Tientsin...
Last month Flora McCann received notification from the Red Chinese that her husband had fallen critically ill. Permission to visit was given. Fortnight ago Mrs. McCann was finally reunited with her husband in the Tientsin Red Cross hospital. For ten days she stayed on, drafting appeals for his release. Finally she was informed that the High People's Court of Hopeh province had granted her request "in the spirit of humanitarian-ism." The Air Force made a plane available to fly McCann back to the U.S. But doctors told his wife that he was dying of lung cancer, gave...
Dentsu's only competition in Japan comes from Hakuhodo, Inc. ($40 million in billings), which recently tied up with the U.S.'s McCann-Erickson to challenge Dentsu for international business. Yoshida does not underestimate the threat of McCann-Erickson-Hakuhodo, Inc. Last fall Japan's Foreign Minister offered him a diplomatic post as roving ambassador. Yoshida turned the offer down: he was needed at Dentsu...
...four, all American: J. Walter Thompson; Interpublic, Inc. (the parent corporation of McCann-Erickson); Young & Rubicam; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn...