Press: The Flop (Cont'd)
Reporting further on what the New York Times's Harold Denny last fortnight called "one of the greatest and most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history" (TIME, Nov. 18), the New York Herald Tribune's Linton Wells last week radioed from Addis Ababa: "Certain of the newspapermen here have decided to take up knitting. ... It is a pastime which quiets the nerves and takes the mind off the absence of war news, the wild rumors, the Government's broken promises and the endless irritations which the experienced newspaper men here agree unanimously that they have never before encountered during their lifetimes of chasing news and covering wars.
"One pious hope expressed by everyone is that, if there must be wars in the future for them to cover, Allah deliver them from being run by the Ethiopians."
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