Word: mchale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Hall of Parliament, with spectators occupying the former Deputies' benches and Mahdawi and his fellow judges lolling on the speaker's rostrum-put four airmen in the dock for taking part in the Mosul revolt. It was a gala evening, witnessed by TIME Correspondent William McHale. Two hours beforehand every seat was filled; hundreds of ticketholders were turned away. The highlights of the performance...
FORTNIGHT ago TIME Middle Eastern Correspondent William McHale had an exclusive interview with Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, and the Premier gave McHale an autographed photograph of himself. Before McHale could get it to press, the interview was being broadcast four times daily over the government radio. Then, in an abrupt switch, McHale got a summons to police headquarters, was given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom...
...noisy assizes when a fanatic army colonel, Fadhil Mahdawi, rants against the "traitors" in the dock. Press censorship is now in the hands of an army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...
...When the Detroit Tigers, picked to roam in the American League's first division, turned out to be a bunch of second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager ("Jack tried to be all things to all men"), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick ("Bill") Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees...
During one of Vickrey's three sittings with the princess, a real emergency developed: that was the day the hotel delivered his eggs soft-boiled. As Vickrey flew back to the U.S. with the portrait and McHale began filing the story of Princess Aisha, other TIME correspondents from Cairo to Djakarta were adding their reports on the emancipation of Moslem women. See FOREIGN NEWS, Beyond the Veil...