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...night before, the general had called four American newspapermen to his office in Tokyo's handsome Dai Ichi Building. He told them of his plans to go to Korea to "see for myself" and invited them to come along. "It will be an unarmed plane," he said seriously, "and we are not sure of getting fighter cover, not sure where we will land. If you are not at the airport I will know you have other commitments." When one of the correspondents assured him that they'd all be there, the general grinned. "I have no doubt...
Despite Mortimer's insistence on the revenge motive, Fellow Columnist Winchell, who also knows a gangster or two, pooh-poohed the claim: "Underworlders can't believe 'any of the Mob' did it-on the grounds that beating up newspapermen 'is hard luck...
...turned out, this was nothing but a canard. Quitting was the last thing in the mind of Jack Blanton, a dignified, slender man with alert eyes and a bald-eagle head. One of the best-known country newspapermen in the U.S., Editor Blanton, winner of a University of Missouri award for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1939, was still at work, and was going to stay there for a long time...
...Senate office wearing an air of conspiratorial secrecy. He tapped a pencil on his desk and kept the tap water running in the washbasin to foil, said he, any hidden microphones. McCarthy confided the name of the "Russian agent" to only the committee, and to a few newspapermen. Soon, every cab driver and casual Washington visitor knew that McCarthy's "top Russian agent" was Owen J. Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins' School of International Relations...
...play throughout the season Dusty Burke, varsity hockey player, has earned a place as first string defenseman on the All-Pentagonal League hockey team. Crimson captain-elect Low Preston and high-scorer Joe Kittredge were named as wings to the second team by the voting Ivy League coaches and newspapermen...