Full of the excitement of the story as always, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Henry Noble Taylor cabled his Washington office from Rome, announced that he was heading for the rebellion-torn Congo. "It looks like a nice picnic," wrote Taylor. Four days after he landed in Leopoldville, Taylor wrote his first story about the "chaotic Congo," slugged it with the message: "This dispatch is for use Tuesday in case I am unable to file Monday from the Bakwanga hot spot." The words were prophetic: last week, covering operations near Bakwanga, Harry Taylor, 31, was killed in...
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