Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers in Finland, the swarms of German raiders flying over Britain; Vincent Sheean, prematurely greying veteran of the Riff rebellion, Spain's Civil War, the Nazi occupation of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, who covered the Battle of Britain for North American Newspaper Alliance; carrot-thatched, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, roving war correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, who came home...
...Fifth Avenue office of Lecture Impresario William Colston Leigh next morning Newspapermen Knickerbocker and Sheean turned the tables on their own profession: granted an interview to the press. Like visiting diplomats (Sheean this week starts a ten-week lecture tour, Knickerbocker next week starts a four-month tour), they sat behind Mr. Leigh's massive desk and answered questions, while a dozen reporters leaned against the walnut-paneled walls...
...Sheean told of two invasion alarms (both covered up by British censorship) that were sounded in Britain, one along the English Channel coast after midnight on Aug. 25, the other in the north on Sept...
...Said Sheean: "I was told that the fog rolling in over the beach was synthetic. I don't know whose fog it was-whether the Germans were trying it out or the British were practicing...
...know, 15 minutes ago. The orchestra leader simply announced they'd go on playing as the crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." From Hammersmith's the program jumped to Piccadilly Circus, where Vincent Sheean spoke briefly of the silent streets. Following interviews with trainmen by BBC men in Euston Station, the program wound up with J. B. Priestley...