United Press Invades India: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent, 1944-1952 Tapa blanda - 2006

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After graduating from Carleton College in 1939, John Hlavacek taught English at the Carleton-in-China Middle School in Shansi and Szechwan for two years, then took a job driving Red Cross trucks to deliver medical supplies to foreign mission hospitals. In December 1941, John joined the American Military Attache's office in China's wartime capital of Chungking. In 1944 he left that post to join United Press as a war correspondent. After China, John continued his foreign reporting from India, Jamaica, Cuba, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, and Africa for NBC News and Time-Life. He was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations during the 1957-58 academic year, studying at the Russian Institute of Columbia University. Today, John resides with his wife, Pegge, in Omaha, Nebraska.