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...generous to assume that the Nazis were using a substitute for Best, but his voice was identified by fellow correspondents who heard him broadcast. William L. Shirer, who knew Best in Vienna, thought the soft café life had changed him. "Best, like few other American foreign correspondents, stayed too long in Europe. Unless you came home sometimes you began to go European. Best never came home, even for a brief vacation." TIME merely said that Best was a South Carolinian. Said he in his biography written for the internees' paper at Bad Nauheim Spa: "Born Sumter, S.C., 4/16...
...news editors, on whom the Japanese pulled one of the smartest publicity stunts in history last week (see p. 55), were not noticeably reproached for it in their own columns. On the radio, which has no headlines to worry about, they were. Said CBS's placid Bill Shirer...
...Shirer's unheated voice carries weight in these matters, because he studied them on the home ground, in Berlin. He was speaking in a weekday evening spot (11 p.m. E.W.T.) reserved early this year by CBS for its first-string reporters to speak their minds...
...worthy intention to evaluate as well as report events has filled the air with "analysts" whose opinions are no better than the next man's. Catering to a public fatigue with such dubious experts, a recent issue of Pic made an indiscriminate attack on the best- Messrs. Shirer, Davis, Kaltenborn, Swing-making them out as superfluous to newspaper readers. The valid point, obscured by this sort of thing, is that newscasters would be more effective if they were fewer and better. In accuracy, coherence and discretion, only a few newscasts will stand the test of print...
...working out the plan to keep the Army abreast of changing trends throughout the world, and to school our enlisted youth in the true value of our challenged democracy, the War Department has engaged over 150 well-known speakers, including William L. Shirer and Hallett Abend, to dish out the uncensored facts to buck privates. Already, over 350,000 pamphlets and four tons of maps are ready for shipment to training centers. And less recently, Army posts have been introduced to a new orientation course. It includes 15 fifty-minute lectures on world events leading up to Pearl Harbor...