Word: mchugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, Managing Editor Harry Reutlinger saw his chance again when a used-car dealer named Robert L. Knetzer,charged with swindling customers out of about $1,500,000 (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), escaped from a Springfield, Ill. jail. Reutlinger called in his star crime reporter, Leroy ("Buddy") McHugh, and gave him the kind of assignment that Herald-American staffers often get but seldom succeed in: find Knetzer, badly wanted...
...McHugh knew just how to start. He phoned everybody he could find who had-ever known Knetzer, told them each the same story: "I want to be fair in the way I write this story. If you contact Knetzer, tell him that we'll print anything he says in his own defense." While he waited for this to pay off, McHugh dug into the escape, wrote a series that resulted in a U.S. marshal being fired for "irregularities...
Fortnight ago, McHugh's city room phone rang. It was a friend of Knetzer's. McHugh invited him over to the Herald-American, where he produced an 18-page statement from Knetzer. "We'd like to talk to Knetzer himself," said Reutlinger persuasively. "He's in Omaha," the man answered readily, and agreed to drive out with McHugh...
John Donelan, Harvard's starter, also pitched well, but was the victim of bad luck in the first inning, when Yale pushed across its only runs on a walk, a triple by Captain Eddie McHugh, whose long drive to left center was misjudged by Dick Clasby, and a rundown several minutes later in which McHugh eluded Walsh's tag. After this, Donelan scattered four hits and showed excellent control
Ushers for the party include the following College men: Terrance J. Barry '52, George S. Abrams '54, Richard T. Button '52, Edward O. Brown '52, Paul R. McHugh '52, Dudley S. Richards '54, William E. R. LaFarge '54, Charles C. Abels '52, Brian F. Reynolds '54, and Paul W. Dillingham...