Word: mcwhirter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today, with 335,000 U.S. military on the scene, the TIME-LIFE team includes 14 correspondents and photographers plus a group of ten South Vietnamese. Our Saigon bureau chief is Simmons Fentress, formerly of the Washington bureau, and his two top resident correspondents are Donald Neff and William McWhirter. Constantly shuttling in and out of South Viet Nam from Hong Kong are Frank McCulloch, our senior correspondent in Asia, and Reporters Karsten Prager and Arthur Zich...
...invited to Tinh Hoi at once for an announcement. Grabbing cameras and note pads, some 35 newsmen set out for the pagoda, passing first through government lines, then the firing pits of the Tinh Hoi compound filled with rebel soldiers. Among them were TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William McWhirter...
...medical treatment. Torches illuminated a chamber where 26 corpses lay under Buddhist flags and swarms of flies. But there was no sign of a rebel spokesman or of the promised announcement. As the minutes passed and night fell outside, the newsmen's suspicions mounted. As Correspondents Prager and McWhirter told...
...this week's on-the-spot reporting is unmatched for its expertise, including as it did Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, who has been covering the war for 2½ years, and James Wilde, an old Viet Nam hand, as well as seasoned reporters Donald Neff, William McWhirter, Zalin Grant, Than Trong Hue and Robin Mannock. Working with their files from Saigon and others from the Tokyo and Washington bureaus, Writer Jason McManus brought his own knowledgeableness to the story: he has written in addition to many of our week-to-week stories on Viet Nam, five...
Lunatic Expert. Chosen to compile the book were Norris and Ross McWhirter, twin grandsons of Scottish Inventor William McWhirter, who built the first in dicating voltmeter and ammeter. At ten, the twins' favorite reading was Whitaker's Almanack; in the ensuing 26 years, they have added to their fund of statistics at Maryborough and Oxford, and as newsmen in London. In a scant 16 weeks, the McWhirters finished the book, and in the process they found an alibi for Sir Hugh: some game birds, they discovered, fly at a hard-to-hit 72 m.p.h...