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...Slated for Moscow was an amateur ornithologist and part-time farmer, the sensitive and erudite dean of Manhattan's drama critics, Brooks Atkinson, who learned about foreign reporting in censorship-cramped Chungking. (When Broadway calls Atkinson again, Drew Middleton, not so long ago an obscure A.P.man and now the Times's "find" of the war, was likely to move in from Germany to succeed...
Fighting under Major General Troy Middleton, the 45th overran 1,000 square miles in three weeks. German prisoners complained: "Don't you Americans ever sleep?" In September, alongside the 36th (a National Guard division from Texas), the 45th landed at Salerno to begin one of the war's most grueling campaigns. Another National Guard division, the 34th (from Iowa and Minnesota), helped hold that beachhead...
...hours, Ed Kennedy had a scoop which the A.P. touted to the fullest. But, as his colleagues in Paris irately pointed out, it was a scoop that anyone might have had if he were willing to break his word. The New York Times's Drew Middleton cabled that it was "the most colossal 'snafu' in the history of the war. I am browned off, fed up, burned up and put out." Fifty-four correspondents at SHAEF signed an angry soo-word protest, calling Kennedy's action "the most disgraceful, deliberate and unethical double cross...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
...among the best of U.S. newsmen, but in the field of international politics none challenges him. As a military reporter he ranks at the top with the United Press's Edward W. Beattie, the Chicago Daily News' s William Stoneman, the New York Times's Drew Middleton. On British foreign policy and relations with its Allies, on Russia's moves, Kuh crowds the top rung with the New York Times's James B. Reston...