Word: pepi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris bureau correspondents would care to leave on a cross country assignment without Joseph ("Pepi") Martis, 36, a walking atlas of the crossroads, small towns, languages, dialects, customs & counter-customs from Lísbon to the Russian border. He is also a whiz at figuring out good camera angles...
...small, lean, nervous, friendly Viennese, Pepi, who is a former automobile mechanic and French Foreign Legionnaire, was, for ten years, handy man to a U.S. business man who insisted that Pepi be able to play tennis with his guests, cook dinner, serve it, and, after dinner, sit in as a fourth at bridge. Pepi's duties for the Paris bureau are just as varied, and he can generally be counted on to deliver in style - as he did last summer when, drafted at the last moment to play baseball (a game he had viewed only once), he rapped...
...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...