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Star Reporter, In Argentina, Gives Interview--and How!

Shippen Finds Himself on Receiving End of Journalistic Coup
(No. 27 of a Series.)
[[inserted in pencil]]  May 22 [[/inserted in pencil]]

By W. H. Shippen, Jr.,
Star Staff Correspondent.

CORDOBA, Argentina.-- A lot of people have been interviewed, I'm sure.  Having spent about 12 years asking questions, I ought to know!
   But I had to travel 7,000 miles to get caught on the sharp end of a repertorial pencil--an old interviewer being interviewed; no pretty sight, however just the retribution!
   For the first time I felt a real sympathy for the innocents and other-wise whose affairs, enthusiasms, prejudices, pet theories and personal  peculiarities I had aired in the public prints--too often those of a private nature.
    To say that I squirmed would be putting it mildly.  For one thing, the reporter who got me at last spoke English on a par with my Spanish--otherwise, I might have fallen back on such stand-bys as "off the record," "just background, you understand," or " this is strictly between us boys--don't tie it to me."
           

         Tries to explain.
In desperation I produced my press card and tried to explain--by waving my hands--that he and I were just a couple of working newspapermen whose opinions were of no impor-
tance compared with those of people we wrote about--like Dr. William M. Mann, director of the National Zoological Park in Washington, for example.  But Dr. Mann was walking far ahead of us, absorbed in the wonders of the local zoo.  He had rather see new forms of wild life
first and reporters later on.
  My contemporary overlooked my police press card, but his gaze fastened on that of the White House Correspondents' Association, with its golden American emblem above an engraving of the White House. (The boys had been good enough to let me into their association in case the card should be useful down here. The only assignments I ever had at the White House were the Easter egg rollings.)
"Ah," exclaimed the Latin American reporter, "your are assigned to the Presidente!  A politicio journalist when will the Presidente and the Congress of North America lift the
embargo on the beef of the Argentine?" (Or words to that effect.)  "What is your opinion of the present relations between our republics?  What have you observed of our internal economics?"
  The reporter knew just enough English and I Spanish to get a rough ( a very rough!) idea of what we were saying.  Only he could wave his hands faster.  "No, no," I said, "no, no! No, no!  I am no politicio journalist, no economic observer--I only write features for The Star."
  "Ah, you are featured--the star periodisto of Washington, yes?"
  "No."
  "Oh, yes, yes, yes--si, senor, your are modest!"
             
Enchanted With Country
  The reporter's pencil was going faster than he talked.  Meanwhile, I said in English--although he didn't catch a word--that I was enchanted with the Argentine, thought the women the most beautiful in the world, the beefsteaks supreme, the mate (or native tea) excellent, and the cities superb, especially the inland metropolis of Cordoba, with its 300,000 population, its magnificent skyline, etc.
  I also mentioned the fact that he might get something really worthwhile by talking to Dr. Mann.
   "Ah," he said, "is Meester Mann in your party?"
  "No, no, I said, waving my hands and feet.  "No, no!  No, no!  I'm only tagging along!"
  "Si senor," he said, and bowed himself away.
 Tonight the reporter's newspaper had me in the headline.  Dr. Mann, however, was mentioned--in an inside paragraph!

Tomorrow: An Unofficial Diplomat

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Unidos Interesa Todo lo ere a America del Sud.
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NOS DECLARA EL SR. W. SHIPPEN

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dias en Cordoby y luego
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argentinas.
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visitantes, mientras recrio
Jardin Zoologico, acompa
del Ing. Abraham Villalba, su
director de Agropecuaria de la p
vincia, el senor Alejandro Pere
ra, encarnad des establecimie
y de otros empledos del Min
trio de Obras Publicas.
    
Elogian el Zoologico
   El senor William M.Mann, en su
calidad de director del Jardin Zoo
logico de Washington, ha visitado diversos establecimientos analogos
en varias naciones.  Es un intell-
gente conocedor de las especies de animales que se guardan en los
mismos.  Le preguntamos que im
presion tiene de nuestro Jardin
Zoologico:
    --La ubicacion de este jardin, su exuberante vegetacion y el acieto con que se ha procedido en proporcionar a los animales un fondo
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argent...Ca-
caracteristicas inte
resanted, modalidades propias en
todos los ordenes de la vida.  Es 
precisamente estos aspectos los
que yo reflejo en los articulos
que mando, cada tres dias, al dia
rio a que pertenezco.
--Que concepto se ha formado de nosotros?
--El argentino es amable y sim-
patico.  El extranjero que visita

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While it's spring up here, it's fall in the Argentine. and while newspapermen do the interviewing here they're liable to be interviewed, as Correspondent Shippen (left)
is being interviewed above by a reporter in Cordoba.  And, judging from the headline in the Cordoba paper, what a newspaperman says is pretty important.

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RGENTINO
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or del "Evening
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dos ultimos acom-
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et-Zoologico
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ando los aficiona-

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la parte del
nente americao que habla
en castellano.  Nos hemos eljado
de ol europeo, preocupandonos de
lo que esta mas cerca de noso-
tros. centro y sudamerica.

Un incasnsable viajero
   Este es el titulo adecuardo para 
el Dr. John H. Gray, profesor jubi-
lado de Economia de la Universi-
dad de Harvard.  Ha viajando por la
mayoria de las naciones europeas;
ha visitado gra parte de Asia,
centro america y sudamerica. Tie-
ne en la actualidad 30 anos de edad
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While it's spring up here, it's fall in the Argentine. And while newspapermen do the interviewing here; in the Argentine they're liable to be interviewed, as Correspondent Shippen (left) is being interviewed above by a reporter in Cordoba. And, judging from the headline in the Cordoba paper, what a newspaperman says is pretty important. [[/call-out]]