Word: fentress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress tried to reach New York on our direct teletype line one morning last week, the operator was brusque: "Tell him to hold it for a minute. Doesn't he know there...
...locked into a room, then whisked aboard a waiting bus for the surprise flight with Johnson to Cam Ranh Bay in South Viet Nam. No one was allowed to leave for supplies, and Sidey's typewriter was one of the few at hand. Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress scored a coup...
...flown to Manila to cover Premier Nguyen Cao Ky at the summit, and wangled permission to interview him on the return trip to Saigon. Not until the plane was in the air did Ky tell Fentress their real destination: Cam Ranh Bay. "We get there an hour ahead of President Johnson," grinned the Premier. Fentress-the only correspondent from the Saigon press corps present-had time to interview Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a Marine general before L.B.J. arrived...
...correspondents going in from Hong Kong and Washington. The U.S. military presence then totaled about 16,000. Today, with 335,000 U.S. military on the scene, the TIME-LIFE team includes 14 correspondents and photographers plus a group of ten South Vietnamese. Our Saigon bureau chief is Simmons Fentress, formerly of the Washington bureau, and his two top resident correspondents are Donald Neff and William McWhirter. Constantly shuttling in and out of South Viet Nam from Hong Kong are Frank McCulloch, our senior correspondent in Asia, and Reporters Karsten Prager and Arthur Zich...
Shnayerson found writing this week's cover story on Justice Black a demanding intellectual experience. Washington Reporter Simmons Fentress found it equally demanding, partly because he had a chance to play tennis with the formidably spry jurist. As for Shnayerson, who came to THE LAW six months ago, after being TIME'S education writer for five years, he has always been fascinated by jurisprudence. When he and his wife Lydia travel abroad, they make a point of visiting courtrooms in every country. "Before we were married," he recalls, "I used to take her on dates to night court...