Word: barkham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second wartime assignment to Europe - John Osborne . . . From Egypt and the Middle East comes a TIME correspondent who has been on the Dark Continent all his life, most recently in Cairo -who knows Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Tripolitania and the Sudan intimately and uncomfortably - South African-born John Barkham . . . And from buzz-bombed Britain comes the man who has been our top correspondent there almost continuously since 1938 (except for his five critical months in Russia as head of our Moscow office and the month he spent jeeping across North Africa with Montgomery's triumphant Eighth Army) -London Bureau...
Over in South Africa John Barkham and his daughter Jennifer Lynne paid their annual Christmas call at the farm of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts. And out in the Pacific William Chickering reached Hawaii from Guadalcanal in time to have Christmas dinner with Bernard Clayton and go to a hula-hula lawn party...
...JOHN BARKHAM...
Right now we have enough correspondents there to challenge the A.E.F. to a football game. The eleven men from the TIME and LIFE News Bureau now on the Dark Continent moved in from Asia, from Britain and from across the Atlantic-to reinforce John Barkham, who covers the news for us down in South Africa-and Harry Zinder, just back in our Cairo office after jeeping along with the triumphant Eighth Army all the way from Alamein to Derna...