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Perhaps you read in your newspaper that Harry Zinder, head of the TIME and LIFE Cairo office, was hurt in an airplane crash last week on his way to the Western Desert to cover the great tank battle in Libya.
Here, in word-saving cable-ese is how our London office sent the news:
ZINDERS PLANE CRASHED DESERTWARDING HE DETAINED HOSPITAL BADLY BRUISED SHAKEN BUT EXPECTS OUT DAYER TWO STOP HE COMPLETELY CHEERFUL HOPES GET DESERT SHORTLIEST SENDS SALAAMS EVERYBODY.
Some of TIME's news gatherers move around all over the map, but Zinder is an excellent example...
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