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Bill Downs is no acrobatic super-scoopster of radio journalism (he has never yet jumped from a plane), but a quiet, grey-eyed, bespectacled graduate of the University of Kansas. He used to be a United Press reporter, joined CBS's London staff in 1942, reported by microphone from Moscow the following year. Since Dday, he has spent most of his time plodding along with the land forces in western Europe, is now assigned to the Twenty-First Army Group...
According to Scoopster Wythe Williams, M. Laval repeated his report. Suddenly, like a Nazi delayed bomb, Edouard Daladier, who had for some weeks lain quiet as a dud, exploded. It was all the fault of this disgraceful rout in Flanders, he raged...
...third biggest. (The rest is distributed throughout the chain.) But neither aspires to be a dictator. To almost everyone in the company they are "Bob" and "Roy" (Howard particularly feels embarrassment at being "mistered"). Of the two Roy Howard, as everyone knows, is the dyed-in-wool reporter, the scoopster, the man who wants to be where everything is going on-and is. (Last week he returned from a holiday in Havana. Scripps was at his Ridgefield, Conn, estate named "Kinderwall"-"Woods of the Little Children.") Howard is the more inventive; Scripps is the balance wheel that keeps him from...
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