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...cable Premier Reynaud and ask him to hurry things up. It was grand of you to phone me last night. Please give my love to Aunt Eleanor. Quent." As Reynolds had hoped, the French official promptly accredited him. But to Reynolds' embarrassment the official also volunteered to dispatch the cable to President Roosevelt, whom Reynolds had never even met. Explained Reynolds in a Manhattan court last week: "I didn't think he would be fool enough to believe it. I hoped he would, though ... I exercised [the] journalistic enterprise that I had learned [working for Hearst...
...city room of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 391,890), nothing stirs up a storm faster than a half-told story. Three years ago Veteran City Editor Sam Armstrong got just such an incomplete story from the wire services. The Air Force, said the story, had received no acceptable bids on an $11 million construction job for nearby Scott Air Force Base, although similar work was going ahead on air bases all over...
...language Russian Daily News. But after the Bolsheviks seized control from the Kerensky government, he quickly became disillusioned with the revolution and fled to China. There he worked for English-language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies (e.g., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, London Daily Express). At the same time he was also paid by the Chinese government to develop its information service. Back in the U.S., in 1935 he began a column of political punditry in the New York Herald Tribune, switched to the Sun and later to the Hearst chain. While...
Publisher of the sport magazine is H. (for Harry) H. S. Phillips Jr., who has been with TIME Inc. for 18 years and was advertising director of TIME. Managing Editor is Sidney L. James, ex-staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who also came to TIME Inc. in 1936 and was assistant managing editor of LIFE. Said Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce: "The new magazine will be a re-evaluation of sport-not an over-evaluation-to put it in its proper place as one of the great new modes of expression...
Fleet, who had trained Greek and Korean troops, to come to Indo-China. Last winter, before the U.S. could dispatch Lieut. General John W. ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel to Indo-China as military adviser, the French broadly hinted that he be reduced to major general so that he would not outrank the French principals...