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...heart of "Mother" Renfro was deeply touched this weekend where portly pitcher (Hutchings) was shelled from the box in the Braves-Cubs: "Ren" felt pity for this poor fat fell because his expansive midriff kept getting...
...last week, in the first step toward the No. 1 Rio Farms objective, five of the now 200 tenants had applications approved for ownership of the land they had farmed under lease. Said lean, sun-bleached Tenant Nicholas Renfro, who netted $3,000 last year and plans to buy 80 acres: "I was just a one-mule-team farmer, like a thousand other guys. Now I got my own tractor and equipment, and I'm aimin' to own my own home and land. It's a wonderful thing...
...Russian bombers in Finland, the swarms of German raiders flying over Britain; Vincent Sheean, prematurely greying veteran of the Riff rebellion, Spain's Civil War, the Nazi occupation of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, who covered the Battle of Britain for North American Newspaper Alliance; carrot-thatched, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, roving war correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, who came home last winter long enough to deliver 88 lectures telling people that the odds favored a German victory and the U. S. ought to help the Allies...
...London while Nazi bombers laid eggs on the outskirts, carrot-topped, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (Hearst's International News Service) danced with excitement on a roof in Fleet Street. But on Dover's cliffs a bomb fell three yards away from Cameraman James Gemmell (British Paramount News), gouged a crater 20 feet deep, failed to explode. Frank Butler (I. N. S.) was hit by falling machine-gun cartridge cases, unharmed...
...Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker came from Yoakum, Tex. The son of a Methodist minister, he studied at minuscule Southwestern University, spent a few months in the army as a telegraph operator on the Mexican border, went north in 1919 to study medicine at Columbia. But all he could afford was a course in journalism, so he took that...