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Died. Robert Ezra McCann, 60, China-born auto dealer who spent ten years in Chinese Communist prisons on trumped-up espionage charges, was released last month after his wife Flora learned he was dying and rushed to Tientsin to plead for his freedom; of cancer; at Clark Air Force Base, Philippine Islands...
...summa cum laude at Northwestern, Pete Peterson went into advertising as a market researcher, soon caught the eye of the research-happy McCann-Erickson agency. He was made a McCann vice president at 27, shortly after became right-hand man to McCann's President Marion Harper (who himself was named to the agency's top spot at 32). Distressed at reports that Bell & Howell was trying to lure Peterson away. Harper three years ago informed top McCann executives that Peterson was his chosen successor. But Peterson ignored the offer, jumped to Bell & Howell when the bait was sweetened...
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...
...McCann's release leaves four Americans in Red Chinese jails. They are: ¶Roman Catholic Bishop James Edward Walsh, 69, who, after 28 years of missionary work in China, elected to stay on in spite of Communist harassment, was arrested in 1958, subsequently sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for "espionage and conspiracy." He is in a Shanghai jail. ¶John Thomas Downey, 31, and Richard George Fecteau, 33, Department of the Army civilians captured when the U.S.A.F. plane in which they were passengers was shot down in 1952 over North Korea (according to the U.S.), over Red China (according...