Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Aug. 26 issue, you report the latest gunfire from a man who seems determined to assassinate one of the most brilliant youths in the history of recent art. The man is Georgio de Chirico, living Italian painter; his intended victim is himself as a young...
...later meeting of the New York chapter, Win the Peace seemed hell-bent on highballing down the Communist Party line. In a strong Russian accent, delegates clamored for destruction of all atom bombs, repudiation of the Baruch report, acceptance of the Soviet plan for "outlawing" atomic war. Scrupulously avoiding mention of Russian occupation armies, they demanded withdrawal of U.S. and British forces from Palestine, China, the Philippines and Greece...
Oddest part of the board's report was its answer to Western Union's argument that it could not afford to raise wages. Ability to pay, said W.U., using one of organized labor's own arguments, should be the principal "determinant of its wages...
Blonde, British-born Iris Carpenter, thirtyish, BBC commentator and war correspondent (London Daily Herald, Boston Globe), says that she held firm, too. Although ready to grant from the start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was happening as anyone else. Correspondent Carpenter stayed until V-E day and beyond, ended up with a new feeling of authority on military strategy, a shattered eardrum (enemy bombing) and a fiancé: Colonel Russell F. Akers Jr. of the U.S. First Army staff...
Much of No Woman's World reads about as a woman's war report might be expected to read: human-interest stories, hard-boiled anecdotes, Perils-of-Pauline asides. In field hospitals Correspondent Carpenter saw "the hideous mess which high-explosive makes of human flesh." In newly liberated Paris she lived on "K rations, cognac and champagne." On the Rhine she rushed over the newly captured Remagen Bridge while MPs shouted, "Keep ten paces between you and the next guy-it's hot around here...