Preston L. Grover; AP Correspondent

Preston L. Grover, 87, who covered World War II in Germany, the Mediterranean and North Africa as a correspondent for the Associated Press and who also wrote from world capitals for nearly 40 more years. Grover, who headed bureaus in New Delhi, Moscow and Paris, twice was on British ships that were dive-bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean, but he was rescued unharmed both times. Before American entry into World War II, he flew with a German bomber that loitered for hours just off England’s white cliffs of Dover without drawing fire, and he dived for cover when a German factory he was visiting came under a British bombing attack. Before moving overseas he wrote a daily political column called “The Washington Daybook” published by hundreds of American newspapers in the late 1930s. In Paris on Monday.