Word: sefton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day in Budapest, Barber made the mistake of violating a rule he had set for himself: no travel at night. With the London Daily Express' Sefton Delmer and an interpreter, he set out to tour the city. Russian machine gunners opened up on the car, almost cut it in two, crumpled...
...like able than complicated not a Keefer in the crowd. Hence, playing the parts poses few problems, and the cast is even better than need-be. It is led by old hand George Tobias, who portrays the rollicking bulk called Stosh, and Douglas Watson, who does well by surly Sefton. Comedy bits are added by Jerry Jarrett and others...
Just before midnight, two policemen walked into Teheran's Park Hotel last week looking for Sefton Delmer, crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure...