Word: kendrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Kendrick...
...BAYNARD KENDRICK...
...recent meeting of the staid Soviet cultural society VOKS, lively protests were loudly uttered by U.S. and British correspondents because, unlike Soviet newsmen, they are not allowed to visit the Russian front (TIME, Oct. 16). The first protesting speech was made by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Al Kendrick, himself a native of Stalin's own Georgia and longtime student of Russian history. Only result of the complaints: an embarrassed changing of the subject. Last week, Correspondent Kendrick, fed up with cabling home rehashes of the Moscow papers, suggested that he be recalled. The Inquirer's managing editor...
...jumped the Philadelphia's Inquirer's huge, clarion-voiced Al Kendrick. "I have listened with great interest for two hours to the accounts of our distinguished Soviet colleagues of their life at the Russian war fronts," he roared. "I should like to take about two minutes of their time to tell how we cover the war in Russia. It may surprise them to learn that . . . the way we cover the great patriotic war of Russia is to sit in our rooms at the Hotel Metropole, read what our Russian colleagues write in the Russian papers, and cable this...
There was an embarrassed silence, and then the London News Chronicle's Paul Winterton got up slowly. "I should like to add to Mr. Kendrick's remarks," said he. "Not only is our only source of news about the Russian fronts what we read in the papers from your correspondents, but furthermore we consider that a poor source. . . . We think we could do much better work if we were allowed to go to the front...