The Press: Golden Words from Brass Hats

Caesar was the first big by-liner to do it, and it's been going on ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards.

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