Word: vandivert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When we moved on to Kashgar the trip was out of this world. The governor gave us a car but we had to supply our own gasoline (it cost 45,000 Chinese dollars). We started off with a party of nine: myself and LIFE Photographer Bill Vandivert, a crack Chinese documentary film team, a driver, a mechanic and three gendarmes to guard us on the desert. Coming back we had to get a tenth into the car for the driver bought a Turki girl in Kashgar for $200 (rather pretty though unwashed) and perched her high on the topmost mound...
...allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert, Jim Shepley and Teddy White took over the mud-walled kitchen of their lodgings to cook their own really royal turkey dinner (25 pounds of it, at a cost of only $1 in American money...
Last week the only authoritative, firsthand report on Chinese Turkestan reached the U.S. That report came from TIME'S Chungking correspondent, Theodore White, who with LIFE Photographer William Vandivert has just completed a two-month tour of the hitherto forbidden area. Correspondent White brought back fresh and important news...
While we are eating our roast turkey and cranberries in America, Bill Fisher and Bill Vandivert in New Delhi have been invited to eat their Indian equivalent with General Ferris-while Teddy White in Chungking will probably get together with the few other American old timers at the Embassy. Harry Zinder may get back from the desert in time to have his Christmas dinner with Jack Belden at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where Rommel planned to have his headquarters by now- and I will be surprised if Will Lang and Lincoln Barnett don't have a really...