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...best daily newspaper in Thailand is edited by a wiry, wearily patient American named Darrell Berrigan. An expatriate newsman and longtime resident of Bangkok. Berrigan got his newspaper last year through an orientally inscrutable tactic-he wrote a magazine article charging that Thailand's chief cop, General Phao Sriyanond, was also Thailand's biggest opium smuggler. General Phao was impressed. With characteristic Thai logic, he apparently reasoned that any newsman intimate enough with the country's boatmen, taxi drivers, prostitutes and businessmen to put together such a report would make an ideal editor. Phao hired Berrigan...
Phao was unceremoniously kicked out of the country in 1957. But before he left, he thoughtfully put aside funds-things are like that in Thailand-for Berrigan to keep going until he could scrape together enough money to buy control of the World for himself. Today Berrigan is such a national institution that diplomats phone him openly for guidance, and Thai officials consult him on politics- foreign and domestic. What is more, by his wit and wits, Editor Berrigan has turned his World into one of the genuinely cultured pearls of the East...
Ploy & Counterploy. Publishing an English-language paper in Thailand, Berrigan frequently has to carry the World, Atlas-like, on his back. His 43 Thai compositors handset every word of the ten-page paper, and since they speak no English, regularly speckle the World with gaudy and sometimes bawdy typos. His general manager is a converted taxi driver; his star photographer was once his houseboy. Worst of all. most of Berrigan's Thai reporters cannot write English. After they cover a story, Berrigan has to debrief them in a game of delicate ploy and diffident counterploy. Sample...
...first big job was playing piano for Trumpeter "Bunny" Berrigan in a hole in the wall in Manhattan's "Jazz Street" (West 52nd) called The Famous Door. In 1938, Tommy Dorsey, who then had a couple of staff singers named Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra, picked Bushkin up from Berrigan. Dorsey hired him as a pianist even before he heard him play a piano; he liked his musicianship on the trumpet-an instrument Joe had taken up in high school. One of Joe's songs, Oh, Look at Me Now, was Sinatra's first solo...
...Chiang's Government. Editor Hibbs passed the protest along to Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes, General Eisenhower, the press. At Chungking, officials told the A.P. that there was no "final decision" to bar Snow. But the record there already showed other unacceptables: the New York Post's Darrell Berrigan, Newsweek's Harold Isaacs were barred last. summer. The New York Times counted nine unwanted, including Vincent Sheean, the Times's Brooks Atkinson, the Chicago Daily News's Leland Stowe...