On the road again, eh?

Pulitzer Prize-winner Walter Duranty, a reporter in Soviet Russia, annoyed fellow correspondents by filing stories that conspicuously quoted "conversations overheard in the streetcars of Moscow." Duranty neither spoke Russian nor took the streetcar; he travelled by chauffeured limousine.

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