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Not all the cables from our correspondents overseas are about battles and bloodshed and sudden death. Sometimes they are just human, personal stories-like this cable from the editor who is now on duty aboard a carrier with the American task force in the Pacific. He was permitted to fly...
These directives determine the tone of U.S. propaganda, but not its content. That is primarily the concern of Operations' International Press & Radio Bureau, which writes all the propaganda that the air waves and cables carry. Bureau Chief Joe Barnes, former foreign news editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Another stream of gibberish starts streaming over the wires just before deadline, after the editors have taken a last look at the bulletins and cables to make sure all TIME'S stories are up to the minute with Tuesday's front page news.
The war ended. Mrs. Town came back to the Delta and Old Man Town built her a $100,000 house with $50 doorknobs. She added an "e" to her name. Next year Old Man Towne raised dollar cotton. Mrs. Towne, pallid Loraine and nympholeptic little Elaine went to Europe. Van...
...recite Shakespeare. On and on his sonorous voice rolled. He was acting the part now. He was Hamlet, and not a word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN SAID CALMLY STOP WE LOOKED AT HER INCREDULOUSLY STOP NONE OF US KNEW HER STOP...