The Press: Newsman's Break

A rawboned, rangy, veteran Canadian woodsman is Norman Charles Phillips, 24-year-old reporter for the Toronto Star. Fortnight ago the Star sent Norman Phillips, driving an old flivver, north to Sudbury to cover the escape of two German prisoners from a nearby concentration camp. Phillips stayed five days, saw the prisoners safely rounded up, wrote his story, headed back toward Toronto. Nearing home he met a fair-haired man in grey trousers and blue coat, walking toward him along the highway.

Not for nothing had Newsman Phillips spent five days watching Nazi soldiers strut about...

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