Word: timesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken toll of the Times foreign staff. Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...
Chessmen. Timesmen are by no means perfect. Daniel Brigham, in Switzerland, has often been fooled by German propaganda and has repeatedly missed accuracy, spurred by phony tips and his own imagination...
...from 203,000 (prewar) to 167,000. But demand is far above that, despite a price increase from tuppence to threepence. Although it once printed a quarter-million words an issue, the Times, now paper-rationed to ten pages, does not complain of paper rationing. But privately, of course, Timesmen see little sense, or justice, in the fact that the Times, which is in a class by itself, should be rationed as severely as the mass-circulation sensational press...
...Timesmen Hugh Byas, G. E. R. Gedye, P. J. Philip, Frederick Birchall, Augur, Walter Duranty are all British subjects. Louis Lochner, A. P.'s Berlin chief, was Henry Ford's secretary on the Peace Ship, is married to a German. Robert (Pearson &) Allen is so sore at Hitler that"he has his wife drilling with...
While he posed for the cameraman, the Timesmen made a case study of apple-cheeked, Master Horton. Findings...