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Hardcover. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Octavo, 65 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine red with black and white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$1.95." Heavy closed tearing with minor open tearing along edges of dust jacket. Rubbing to hinges. Adhesive residue on front cover. Light age toning and scuffing to dust jacket. Heavy bumping to top edge of front board. Textblock clean. Shelved in Case 3. Robert and Ann Doyle met Langston Hughes when Robert was at the Chicago Tribune's radio station WGN and he hosted Hughes for a broadcast hour. Robert Doyle served as the Time Shanghai bureau chief in 1948. One of the last evacuees from Nanking, he then established a bureau office in Hong Kong. He was killed in Java in April of 1950, and Hughes' was the first cable to arrive in Hong Kong for Ann. "Two Americans Are Found Slain On Jeep Journey in Central Java; One Victim Is R.J. Doyle of Time Magazine The Other Is Believed to Be Professor Raymond Kennedy of Yale" THE NEW YORK TIMES April 29, 1950, Page 3. 1419193. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. …