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...meant some pretty fast journalistic company. Such famed Vienna hands and visiting correspondents as Vincent Sheean, William L. Shirer, the New York Evening Post's roving Dorothy Thompson and its resident Balkanologist M. W. ("Mike") Fodor, I.N.S.'s H. R. Knickerbocker, the Chicago Daily News's Negley Farson-and many other now-legendary figures-were Gunther's cablehead competitors and constant café companions. Together, they zestfully created the profession and the mystique of the U.S. foreign correspondent, and built the by-lined reputations that made that era a golden age of American reporting from abroad...
...Died. Negley Farson, 70, bestselling author (The Way of a Transgressor) and onetime foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Grandson of a Union Army general, hard-living Negley Farson drew the source material for his hard-bitten books from careers as an oil salesman in the U.S., engineer in England, arms salesman in Czarist Russia, aviator in Egypt; of a heart attack; in Georgeham, North Devon, England...
Passing through Scandinavia, as he has many times for 40 years. Veteran Foreign Correspondent Negley (The Way of a Transgressor) Farson made his customary mental notes about those happy lands. The landscape: "refreshingly beautiful." The cities: "no slums." Social legislation: "far ahead." Chief characteristic: "about the last place in Europe where sanity still survived." But on one point Farson found himself baffled. "Why," he wrote to Denmark's biggest newspaper. Berlingske Tidende, "in countries noted for their social services and the almost universal kindness of one man to another, in lands where legislation seemed to have abolished most...
Drawing the Maps. Gunther as a book-journalist lacks the originality and profundity of Rebecca (Meaning of Treason) West, the stylistic graces of Negley (Way of a Transgressor) Farson, John (Hiroshima) Hersey or Vincent (Personal History) Sheean. Yet none matches him for sheer scope, reportorial zest, or, most notably, the gift of popularizing remote places and difficult subjects. Says Critic Clifton Fadiman: "Gunther is a born teacher; he doesn't miss a fact-trick. His books are almost too easy to read; because of that, they seem superficial. But he's taught us a hell...
...avowed opponents of Prime Minister Strydom's apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some...