Word: renfro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westerner named Lucius T. Russell Sr. Setting himself up in Newark some 15 years ago, Publisher Russell attracted instant attention with a local vice crusade, splashed pictures of Newark brothels with names of the property owners daily on the Ledger's front.page. His crack rewrite man was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, later to win the Pulitzer Prize for his European correspondence for the old New York Evening Post (TIME...
...notion that motorless flying was just pure useless sport. I'm glad TIME put me right, though. Now I won't have to wait any longer for the $700 airplane; I'll just get myself a sailplane and soar out to see the world. . . . ROBERT B. RENFRO...
Last week the Curtis-Martin newspapers (New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger and Inquirer) excitedly front-paged the "invention" of such a revolutionary airplane in Germany. The story, sent from Berlin by Pulitzer-Prize-winning Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, reported experiments by Dr. Adolf Rohrbach, head of Rohrbach Metal Airplane Construction Co., on an airplane without propeller or conventional wing. From each side of the fuselage extends an elongated paddle-wheel driven by a 120-h.p. engine. Each paddle-wheel is composed of three blades to provide lift and forward thrust. The angle of each blade shifts...
Able Berlin Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker has worked long and hard for the slender New York Evening Post and for its slender Quaker brother, Philadelphia's Public Ledger. Last year he won the Pulitzer Prize for correspondence with his 10,000-mi. travel diary through Russia. Pleased, the Post last spring assigned him to survey Europe, sensationalized his findings in a series of articles called Fighting the Red Trade Menace. Earlier this winter Correspondent Knickerbocker was again on the move, this time touring Germany in company with James Abbe, a onetime society photographer. Their discoveries, meaty copy...
First U. S. newsgatherer to obtain a formal interview from Dictator Josef Stalin was United Pressman Eugene Lyons (TIME, Dec. 1 & 8, 1930). First and only correspondent to chat with the grim Dictator's sweet-faced, cackling old mother was Hubert Renfro ("The Red Trade Menace") Knickerbocker (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week cheerful Ralph W. Barnes, comparatively a newcomer in Moscow and correspondent of Manhattan's Herald Tribune, was first to report Mrs. Josef Stalin, First Red Lady. He reported...