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...journalism graduate of Northwestern University, got his first newspaper job in the New East in 1935 just after Il Duce's grab at Ethiopia. TIME's Foreign News editor found him there in 1938, when he already had a reputation as one of the best informed newspapermen in the area. Zinder has been working for TIME ever since, digging out the news for us in the deserts of Arabia and the ports of Syria, in Cyprus, Trans-Jordania, Palestine, Turkey, Irak, Iran, Egypt, and now Libya...
...wrote Foreign News in New York last year, but before that held down the volcanic job of TIME'S Berlin correspondent. Other writers home from the news fronts include Fillmore Calhoun, who was also in the London office, then headed TIME'S Rome Bureau until Il Duce kicked...
...Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano, it is said, arranged a little stunt to impress U.S. Ambassador William Phillips, who was about to return to Washington to report on Italian conditions. While the Duce was receiving the Ambassador, Count Ciano rushed in with a cooked-up piece of good news: "Duce! Duce! Twenty-eight ships loaded with wheat have just arrived . . . our granaries are simply bursting. Where can we put all this wheat...
...Duce pondered the problem...
Ambassador Phillips quietly suggested: "Duce, why don't you put it in your bread...