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Next day in Budapest, Barber made the mistake of violating a rule he had set for himself: no travel at night. With the London Daily Express' Sefton Delmer and an interpreter, he set out to tour the city. Russian machine gunners opened up on the car, almost cut it in two, crumpled...
Barber in his seat. Delmer got behind the wheel and sped to safety on two flat tires. A bullet had creased Barber's skull; forty stitches were needed to close the wound...
...seniors in the College have been awarded fellowships--including the new James Bryant Conant grant--for travel and study abroad, Dean Delmer Leighton announced yesterday...
Last Word. The explanation did not satisfy the foreign press corps in Teheran. In a body, it assembled at the Foreign Ministry to demand specifics. Lamely, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatimi quoted excerpts from Daily Express editorials (which Delmer did not write), referred vaguely to a supposedly inaccurate Reuters' report, sternly added that Iran has no need to tolerate "insults and lies." New York Timesman Michael Clark, informal spokesman for the group, snapped right back with a lecture on freedom of the press. Said he:"The reflections with which we have just been gratified are more generally heard in police...
Quietly, Nicholson packed his bags and departed for Bagdad. Correspondent Delmer got off a last jab at the government as he bought air passage to Beirut. He handed the telegraph office a message to his office, knowing it would be relayed to Iranian officials. Wrote Delmer: "I called the Persian government oil-grabbers and contract-breakers, and I still...