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Last Friday John Walker of TIME'S Battlefronts department handed his first dispatch from the Philippines to an Army short-wave broadcaster...
Died. John Stewart Bryan, 72, scholarly publisher of Richmond's News Leader and Times-Dispatch, onetime president of the College of William and Mary, Harvard University overseer, Southern Railway director; of pneumonia; in Richmond...
Later the red-faced A.P. explained to press and radio editors: "The Honolulu dispatch . . . gave no indication that Nimitz was jesting until transmission of the text of his simulated communique had been completed. The bulletin was killed . . . the moment the San Francisco cable desk discovered the Admiral was . . . quoting medieval history...
...curt dispatch came last week out of France: old Aristide Maillol, one of the leaders of modern sculpture, had been killed in an auto accident near his home in Banyuls, on the Mediterranean near the Spanish border...
Officers and Gentlemen. This third volume of Lee's Lieutenants completes Douglas Southall Freeman's studies of the men around the Confederacy's commander. In 1915, Dr. Freeman, then 29, and editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, as he still is, began collecting material on the Army of Northern Virginia. By 1926 he was ready to begin writing his four-volume, authoritative biography, R. E. Lee. It made him famous and virtually ended arguments about the General. Dr. Freeman reputedly knew where Lee had been each hour through the 35,000 hours between the firing on Sumter...