Word: macknight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondent from 1928 to 1936, was one of the few British newsmen who gave the U.S. serious coverage, did not write about it as if it were an extension of Coney Island peopled mostly by tycoons, cinema cutups and political crackpots. He married an American (Margaret Adele MacKnight of New York City). Mrs. Cruikshank is an editor of London's Economist, writes on U.S. affairs. He turned his favorite subject into a novel, The Double Quest, using the symbol of a Briton's love for an American girl as the theme for Anglo-U.S. amity. Later...