Word: sherrod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sherrod, now military correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, went ashore with U.S. troops at Attu, Tarawa and many another Pacific beachhead during World War II. After the war, as senior correspondent in the Far East, he traveled thousands of miles on a roving assignment for TIME, following the news in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. He has almost completed an extracurricular activity-the official Marine aviation history of World...
Shepley called in Robert Sherrod, onetime war correspondent (Tarawa; On to Westward) who now covers the Pentagon Building. Sherrod found out that the J.C.S. had met all day the day before and that there was considerable excitement about the meeting. He also saw General Omar Bradley, head of the J.C.S. leaving the Pentagon in civilian clothes, and learned that Bradley was off to attend a meeting with Defense Secretary Louis Johnson in Acheson's office at the State Department...
Meanwhile, Sherrod, pounding his beat, picked up enough information to satisfy himself that the J.C.S. had done an about-face on Formosa. From his own news sources, Shepley found out the details of President Truman's meeting with the Cabinet and the plans for the forthcoming Security Council session...