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The Eagle's idea of a war correspondent MAGIC MISTRESS: A Thirty Year Affair with Reuters by Doon Campbell (Tagman Press, 17.50)
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THERE must still be a few young people out there who would give
their eyeteeth to be a reporter. Doon Campbell, however, one of the
finest of his generation of war correspondents, volunteered a full
set.
Offered a job with Reuters at the age of 22, and dismaying of his
teeth's chalky, Amis-like tendencies, he persuaded his dentist to
remove them all.
Their replacements saw service through the D-day landings,
Germany, Burma, the subcontinent and China and only once caused him
re...
