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hirelings, the charge was sounded and the infantry gave assault. For a few hectic moments, a royal battle waged around the telephone booths. The one that contained the United Press correspondent was thrown to the ���oor, wires ripped from the wall, doorside down, with two men sitting on it. Inside its prisoner raged, shouted, swore, kicked, and threatened dire retribution but nobody paid any attention. In the struggle, all the telephone wires were torn out, and nobody was able to use the public phones that night. In the of���ces of the Chicago Tribune, the Foreign News Service and the Paris Edition did not see eye to eye about the importance of the Lindbergh ���ight. Hank Wales knew he was faced with a big story, Bernhard Ragner did not. Like Ambassador Herrick, the editor of the Paris Edition felt that the important event of the day was the tennis match; unlike Herrick, he proved unable to shift gears when it became apparent that it was not. He assigned only one man to Le Bourget, Jules Frantz. William Shirer asked if he could go along to help. ���If you want,��� Ragner said, ���after you ���nish the tennis story. Whichever of you gets back ���rst can write the story.��� This turned out to be Shirer. He beat the traf���c jam by running three of the four miles from Le Bourget, until he was lucky enough to come upon a taxi driver who had been trying to get to the air���eld and, discouraged, had decided to turn back. ���OK,��� said Ragner. ���You write the story. Keep it short.��� Frantz arrived, breathing hard, forty minutes later. He had run the whole four miles to the ���rst subway station HYLAND 14