Word: pribichevich
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Russian Spit. In a tiny hut filled with wood smoke, crowded with two cots and a rough-hewn table carrying a candle and scattered papers, ragged, tousle-haired young Churchill shook hands with me. Pribichevich, you have the biggest story of the war! In fact since my father escaped from the Boers, no one has had such a story to tell...
Last month TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich told the dramatic story of his capture and escape from Nazi parachutists sent to seize Marshal Tito (TIME, June 26). Herewith the sequel-the report of a mass march by Partisans and Allied associates through Yugoslavia's German-infested mountains...
...Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them with our tongues. Mine would always fall apart in Churchill's fingers, which caused him to remark, "Pribichevich, the Russian spit is stronger than yours...
...comes via Algiers from Stoyan Pribichevich, who was captured (instead of Tito) by the Nazis in Yugoslavia...
Last month came the first news of the grim medicine practiced among Yugoslavia's Partisans, where doctors fight shattering wounds, frostbite and typhus almost without equipment (TIME, May 8). Last fortnight, TIME'S Stoyan Pribichevich, chosen by lot to represent the U.S. and British press in Yugoslavia, sent out a pooled dispatch containing more details on Yugoslav medicine. Excerpts...