Word: wynne
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Another newsman who had close personal ties with Nasser was Wilton Wynn. Now a TIME correspondent in Rome, Wynn went to Cairo in 1945 to teach at the American University, married a Cairo-born Lebanese and became a foreign correspondent...
...Nasser informally in 1955 and soon learned that the colonel took a lively interest in the workings of the foreign press. Wynn grew used to Nasser's critiques of the coverage he received, but was puzzled when he began to criticize stories not yet published. Wynn asked Nasser how it was done...
...this week's cover story, Bell in Rome, Wynn in Cairo and Griggs in Beirut added their impressions of the impact of Nasser's death to their recollections of his life. The reporting was coordinated by Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott. Also contributing: Marlin Levin and John Shaw in Jerusalem, Lansing Lament in London and Herman Nickel and William Mader in Washington. The finished story and accompanying boxes were written by Spencer Davidson and William Doerner, assisted by Researchers Ursula Nadasdy and Betty Suyker. The article was edited by Ronald Kriss...
TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn was living and reporting in the Middle East in 1952 when King Farouk was ousted in a coup brilliantly planned by a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the years that followed, Wynn came to know Egypt's new leader well, and in 1959 published a study of him entitled Nasser of Egypt: The Search for Dignity. Wynn, whose present post is Rome, flew to Cairo a few hours after Nasser's death and cabled these reminiscences...
...words. He could be outraged that we didn't give his revolution the support he thought it deserved, but still he would respect us for our honesty. The greatest compliment he could give any newsman came to me in 1962 when he told a visitor, "Wilton Wynn understands...