Word: sumter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been called to our attention that a recent issue of TIME has commented upon the identity of "Guess Who," the Berlin propagandist, as being Robert Henry Best, "of Sumter," Sumter County...
...have had inquiries from all over the U.S. relative to this man. Records indicate that Robert Henry Best is a son of the late Rev. A. H. Best, who preached for one year (1896) at the Methodist Church at Zoar, a small country community in Sumter County about ten miles from this city. His father was transferred after that one year from the "Lower" to the "Upper Conference" of the South Carolina Methodist Church. It is possible that he was born in Sumter or Sumter County in 1896, which would make his age at the present approximately 46 years...
...hardly seems probable that, if Best were personally trying to identify himself, he would describe himself as "of Sumter." He must have moved from Sumter County with his family before he was a year old, and we cannot discover any record of his having visited here since that time. Robert Henry Best, the United Press correspondent, graduated from Wofford College, in Spartanburg, S.C. in 1916. . . . Although he lived in Spartanburg as a young man, he has not revisited that city since...
...fact that he claims to be "of Sumter" is one reason for suspecting some substitution by the Nazis...
WARREN T. KING Executive Secretary Sumter Chamber of Commerce Sumter...