John Hersey
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a recent visit to Tientsin, China, where writer spent the first eleven years of his life. He remembers all the signs of Chinese …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's recent visit to Tientsin, China, where he spent the first 11 years of his life. He was interested in the current state…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's recent visit to Tientsin, China, where he spent the first eleven years of his life. His father was a missionary who …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the flight of Vilmos Fekete, his wife, and two young daughters from Budapest to Austria, after the anti-Communist uprising last …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about how the August flood following hurricane Diane, hit Winsted, Conn. It came about due to the overflow of the Mad River, which goes …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the State of Israel. The 50,000 Jew living in the Yemen at the end of World War II, constituted one of the most ancient Jewish …
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PROFILE of President Truman. tells about a session he held with Dean Acheson & a number of his advisers & document drafters for a final going over of a …
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PROFILE of President Truman. Mr. Truman told about a chees some N.Y. State admirers sent to Pres. Andrew Jackson upon his retirement. They pressed a cheese…
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PROFILE of President Truman: Report on a typical working day in the President's life. Mr. Connelly, the President's Appointments Secretary, is the …
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PROFILE OF President Truman tells about a morning staff meeting. Mr. Truman asked General Vaughan if he had anything to bring up. Vaughan seldom speaks at …
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PROFILE of President Truman. Dr. Graham, the Presiden physician, comes from Kansas City, & Mr. Truman has known his father all his life, but had never met …
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Profile of Bernard Baruch. While Miss Higgins acted as nurse for Mr. Baruch, he had to undergo an operation for an ulcer. When Miss Higgins reported the …
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PROFILE of Bernard Baruch. Speaks of his unwillingness to give financial advice. This reticense is partly the result of an unfortunate experience he had in…
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PROFILE of Bernard Baruch, who said that the former Ambassador likes to tell him that this country has "gone to hell in a bucket."
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John Hersey’s 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and its aftermath.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Crow Villate. It was taken over by the Communists a few days after the Japanese surrendered. The organization was made …
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PROFILE of Father Walter P. Morse, a Cowley Father, and the story of his work at the Episcopal Mission of Ichang, China.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Army Transportation Corps and the job of transporting returning soldiers. The Black Hawk Division, the Eighty-sixth was the …
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PROFILE of Pvt. John Daniel Ramey, a student at a school, officially known as the Special Training Unit of the 3384th Service Unit, a place at which an …
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John Hersey’s account of how, during the Second World War, J.F.K. battled to save the crew of PT-109 while adrift in the South Pacific.