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Word: haunters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friendly, sentimental, high-living, poker-playing ex-sportswriter (New York Evening World, World-Telegram) who has maneuvered his highly flavored personality into the role of an unofficial U.S. ambassador-at-large. A hearty haunter of nightspots, lacking a sharp critical sense or the appetite for one, Reynolds is so confessedly fond of all kinds of people that his Collier's bosses have turned the trait into a shop gag. They say that Reynolds, dispatched to do a story on a big manufacturer, returned to exclaim: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Home from inter viewing the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ambassador from Brooklyn | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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