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...characters. The crude but levelheaded Mr. Perkins might well be a roughed-up composite of all the frankly capitalistic U.S. businessmen who have visited and charmed the Rusians: ex-U.S. Ambassador Joe Davies, the late Wendell Willkie, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston. But the nasty U.S. correspondent-a vicious roasting of all American journalists who dare to suspect or find one flaw in the Soviet system-was harder to place. Most obvious counterpart in Soviet eyes: the Reader's Digest's William L. White, foreign correspondent and author (They...
This week TIME Correspondent John Hersey cabled that Mr. Perkins' Mission was "the strangest literary coincidence of the war. Korneichuk wrote the play last spring. Eric Johnston and William L. White visited Russia during the summer. In the play there are no similarities to Johnston and White either in physical appearance of the actors or in characteristics as revealed by the lines. But to Muscovites, 'Mr. Perkins' is Eric Johnston and 'Mr. Hemp' is Bill White. And that is how it will be, as long as the play runs...
...drawing room of Honingham Hall in England's Norfolk County, Sir Eric Teichman sat before a cosy fire and was content. Lunch was over and quiet lay on the big house. Then, from outside, came the sound of shots. Sir Eric, 60-year-old retired British diplomat and expert on Far Eastern affairs, rose from his armchair, growled to Lady Ellen: "I'm going out to stop this damned poaching." Unarmed, he set out to stop...
...second trip, they found Sir Eric. He was dead, "crouched as though he had been watching someone." A .30-caliber bullet from a U.S. Army carbine had pierced his left cheek, entered his body. Fifty yards away British police and U.S. Army MPs found ten empty cartridges, two wads of chewing gum. The rest was easy: the investigation moved to a U.S. Army airdrome near...
Last week, three days after the shooting, Private George E. Smith Jr., of Pittsburgh, was arrested on a charge of murdering Sir Eric Teichman, Private Leonard S. Wijpacha of Detroit on a charge of being an accessory. A U.S. Army court-martial prepared to hear evidence in an ancient English crime: murder by poachers...