Quentin Reynolds

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Born April 11, 1902 in New York, NY

Died March 17, 1965 of cancer in San Francisco, CA

Quentin Reynolds was the author-war correspondent who won acclaim for his World War II reporting on the Dieppe raid and the London blitz.

A New York native, Reynolds began his writing career at the New York Evening World as a sports reporter. He started a 21-year association with Colliers magazine in 1934 with a report on the rise of the Hitler youth movement.

Reynolds was described once as the "light-heavyweight champion of the underdog."

He published 25 books over his career, including "The Wounded Don’t Cry," "London Diary" and "Dress Rehearsal." He also published an autobiography, "By Quentin Reynolds."

After World War II, Reynolds was best known for his libel suit against right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler, who called him a coward and an "absentee war correspondent." Reynolds won $175,001, at the time the largest libel judgment ever. The trial was later made into a Broadway play, "A Case of Libel," which was twice adapted as TV movies.

— The Associated Press March 18, 1965

Seven thoughts about Quentin Reynolds

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In the late 50's, I was the writer/director of "The Quentin Reynolds Show" which appeared every week
on the Dumont Network. The producer was Jason Philips and our offices were at 130 West 57th Street
in New York City. The half hour program profiled leading companies and institutions, such as the Glass
Institute or the Manhattan School of Music. During these documentary films, Quentin would conduct a short interview with the CEO or President. As a highly professional journalist, Quentin Reynolds was
both affable and well prepared for these shows, and it was a pleasure to work with him. The program,
which had a different format from the original "Operation Success" series on Dumont, used Quentin
Reynolds as the anchor instead of "Operation Success" host Bob Pfeiffer.

” — Peter Whitelam, September 23, 2014 at 1:27 a.m.

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I forgot to mention this little tidbit about Mr. Reynolds... The Hotel New Yorker here in New York gave us the exquisite Hilton Suite at no cost because we gave them a nice "plug" at the end of each show. Show was always on at Saturday mornings at a local station here in NYC.
Each time we gathered to film the interviews there (once a week on Thursdays) .... I was told that Quent (as we all called him) must have 1 or 2 cold bottles of his favorite beer. As I recall, it was MICHELOBE ! He only wanted that brand... and no other !
I found him to be extremly intelligent and easy and very pleasant to work with. I shot alot of the interviews with an Auricon 16MM camera using a 1200 ft magazine. Both I and my good childhood friend Michael Shrayer always went out on location to film the assorted 15 minute segments for the show. Michael was my excellent teacher and tutor in my becoming a cameraman and I owe him my gratitude for that. The director we both worked with was the beautiful Maggie Sullivan and Michael eventually married her.
Although Michael is now deceased, I myself still stay in touch with his sister Rina who is fully retired and now lives in Israel.

” — BERNIE ZUCH, September 14, 2015 at 12:52 p.m.

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