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...most eagerly read column in Munich, appearing in the tabloid Abendzeitung, is written in breezy English by Gordon Francis Feehan, 38, a New England-born Irishman. Under the pen name of Frank Gordon, Feehan turns out his slangy, spangled Munich-Go-Round, that looks as startlingly Arnerican in its German context as Dinah Shore would among the Rhinemaidens...
...Miincheners happily hurdle the language barrier to see themselves through Feehan's sharp eyes, pick up tips on fashionable fads, and be lectured on the proper way to broil a steak (rare-to-blue) or mix a martini (8-to-1). Feared or respected by every headwaiter in town, and greeted by readers on the street, Feehan long ago reached the goal of every U.S. columnist of his stripe: he is as famous in his city as any celebrity he writes about...
...Ashes. Feehan smashed his way into Munich in 1945 with the conquering 45th Division, has stayed there or near by ever since, first in the occupation government, later as news editor for Radio Free Europe. Watching a new Munich rising out of the ashes of war and occupation was, he found, "like reading half a novel. I wanted to keep on and see how it came...
...Yorkers were satisfied with the scant, repetitive radio and TV news. When Associated Press Reporter Richard Feehan met former President Truman, who was visiting in Manhattan, on his morning walk, Truman complained that he did not get enough news from radio coverage. Reporter Feehan took Truman over to the A.P. building to watch the news ticker. (Truman returned to his hotel with a sheaf of A.P. stories under...
Then Murphy brought on Amos C. Feehan, an FBI expert who testified that the great bulk of these exhibits had been copied on Hiss's typewriter. Feehan pointed professorially to enlargements of the documents, pointed out the "upthrust terminating stroke of the lower-case V " and other peculiarities as proof of his finding. It was effective evidence and it was also dull. But as the weekend drew near Murphy called a witness who restored the electric atmosphere in which the trial had begun...