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"The second summons came late in July-this time from the security section of the Ministry of Interior. En route I picked up two American Embassy officials for protection. The Egyptian Interior official, somewhat confused by my 'protection,' kept bouncing out of his office for quick hallway briefings...
He had graduated to the editorship of King Features Syndicate in Manhattan when a friendly Chicago cop telephoned him a mysterious summons in 1934. Lait rushed to Chicago and got his most famous scoop, standing a few feet away when G-men shot down Badman John Dillinger.
Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the...
Garst is as methodical as a metronome, and as unexcitable. City-room staffers clock him in every day: hanging up his hat & coat at 5:20 p.m., putting them on again at exactly 12:05 a.m. Some times during the evening he looks up, summons one cf the city-room...
When France fell to the Nazis, thousands of stateless and homeless Europeans fled to Marseille, there to dream of visas to freedom that most were never to get. In this lecherous and filthy port, where men squirmed on the precipice of hysteria and a knock on the door might be...