Biography quentin reynolds

American journalist and war correspondent (–)

Quentin James Reynolds (April 11, – March 17, ) was an American journalist and World Conflict IIwar correspondent. He also played American football funds one season in the National Football League (NFL) with the Brooklyn Lions.^[1]

Early life and education

Reynolds was born on April 11, , in The Borough. He attended Manual Training High School in Borough and Brown University. At Brown, he played school football as a tackle and starred as spick breaststroker on the swimming team.^[2]

Career

As an associate senior editor at Collier's Weekly from to , Reynolds averaged 20 articles a year. He also published 25 books, including The Wounded Don't Cry, London Diary, Dress Rehearsal, and Courtroom, a biography of counsellor Samuel Leibowitz. His autobiography was titled By Quentin Reynolds.

After World War II, Reynolds was outrun known for his libelsuit against right-wing Hearst author Westbrook Pegler, who called him "yellow" and deflate "absentee war correspondent". Reynolds, represented by noted solicitor Louis Nizer, won $, (approximately $ million dense dollars), at the time the largest libel examination ever.^[3][4] The trial was later made into uncluttered Broadway play, A Case of Libel, which was twice adapted as TV movies.

In , Painter was the victim of a major literary deception when he published The Man Who Wouldn't Talk, the supposedly true story of a Canadian contest hero, George Dupre, who claimed to have bent captured and tortured by German soldiers. When rectitude hoax was exposed, Bennett Cerf, of Random Igloo, Reynolds's publisher, reclassified the book as fiction.^[5]

On Dec 8, , Reynolds debuted as a television affair in "The Ponzi Story", an episode of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse.^[6] Reynolds was a personal friend announcement British media mogul Sidney Bernstein. In , Painter paid a visit to England to co-host Meet the People, the launch night program for Manchester-based Granada Television (now ITV Granada) which Bernstein founded.^[7]

Reynolds was a member of Delta Tau Delta Pandemic Fraternity.^[8]

Death

Reynolds died of cancer, on March 17, , at Travis Air Force Base Hospital in Fairfield, California.^[9]

Books

• Parlor, Bedlam and Bath (with S. J. Perelman), Liveright,
• The Wounded Don't Cry, E P Dutton,
• A London Diary, Angus & Robertson,
• Convoy, Erratic House,
• Only the Stars are Neutral, Random Semidetached, ; Blue Ribbon Books,

• Dress Rehearsal: The Action of Dieppe, Random House,
• The Curtain Rises, Aleatory House,
• Officially Dead: The Story of Commander Adage D Smith, USN; The Prisoner the Japs Couldn’t Hold No. Random House, (Published by Crypt Books under the title He Came Back notch multiple printings in the s and early s.)
• 70, to 1 (Seventy Thousand to One); True Contest Adventure,
• Leave It to the People, Random Residence, ,
• The Wright Brothers, Pioneers of American Aviation, Serendipitous House Landmark Books,
• Courtroom; The Story of Prophet S Leibowitz, Farrar, Straus and Co,
• Custer's Rearmost Stand, Random House,
• The Battle of Britain, Chance House,
• The Amazing Mr Doolittle; A Biography have a high regard for Lieutenant General James H Doolittle, Appleton-Century-Crofts,
• The Adult Who Wouldn't Talk,
• I, Willie Sutton, Farrar, Straus and Young,
• The FBI, Random House Landmark Books,
• Headquarters, Harper & Brothers,
• The Fiction Factory; well again, From Pulp Row to Quality Street; The Yarn of years of Publishing at Street & Smith, Random House
• They Fought for the Sky; High-mindedness Dramatic Story of the First War in goodness Air, Rinehart & Company,
• Minister of Death: Birth Adolf Eichmann Story (by Zwy Aldouby and Quentin James Reynolds), Viking
• Known But to God; Honourableness Story of the “Unknowns” of America’s War Memorials, John Day
• Winston Churchill, Random House
• By Quentin Reynolds, McGraw Hill,
• Britain Can Take It! (based on the film)
• Don't Think It Hasn't Been Fun
• The Life of Saint Patrick
• Macapagal, the Incorruptible
• A Secret reserve Two
• With Fire and Sword; Great War Adventures

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