Radio: Newscaster of Shanghai

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Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs won't let him, he is prepared to carry on from the Philippine Islands, where he was once correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. He has had offers from Station KZRM in Manila, will accept when Shanghai gets too hot.