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...Weller, who knew eight languages, was one of the only reporters in the 1940s to cover the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America, according...
...really a breed of man that one rarely encounters now,” Anthony Weller said...
After the war, Weller defied a ban by the U. S. government against visiting the atomic bomb cites in Japan. Weller was the first Western civilian reporter to enter Nagasaki after it was devastated by a nuclear bomb in August...
...another assignment in New Guinea, Weller was struck over the head by a tribesman who stole one of his notebooks—containing eight months of research. Weller brought the tribesman to court but only received monetary compensation worth the price of the notebook...
...Weller was acclaimed for more than just his war reporting. He won the prestigious George Polk Memorial Award in 1955 for a series on Turkey he wrote for the Chicago Daily News...