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THE SALEMITE
Friday, February 2, 1940.
Ath-a-letic Sal
Ruth Sclinedl, badminton manager,
is anxious to get badminton season
under way as soon as possible. She
has asked that all girls interested in
this sport let her know in the next
few days what nights will suit them
best for practice. Since the gym is
available only at night, practice
will be held two nights a week from
7 o’clock to 10. It is necessary that
these girls see Ruth immediately so
that the nights can be decided on.
Basketball practice has left lots of
us complaining about blisters and
sore muscles. But, compared with
Lillian Lanning’s cracked arm and
Betty Barbour’s sprained ankle, our
aches are most minor ones. By
coincidence both girls are guards
and both are a most vital part of
their respective teams. Both (along
with their classmates) are hoping
they will recuperate in time for the
approaching tournament.
FOOTBALL SQUIBS
Some of the larger universities
spend as much as $500 per week-end
to “scout” future football oppon
ents!
Johnny Maiilbetsch, Michigan’s
greatest plunging fullback, gained
350 yards against Harvard in 1913
without scoring.
Each time he took the ball to the
Crimson goal line the quarterback
called some other back to carry the
ball over. All failed and Harvard
scored a 7 to 0 vctoryl
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TEN MINUTES WITH
MR. KNICKERBOCKER
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“Teaching is really the softest job
on this earth. I decided I’d come
back to it when I was about eighty
and became tired of finding out out
side of books!”
Then he went to Germany and
studied medicine for three semesters
— at the universities of Berlin,
Munich, and Vienna. But then came
the wolf again and his money was
gone. He became assistant corre
spondent to the Philadelphia “Pub
lic Ledger” and N. Y. “Evening
Post.” “I covered myself ■ivith
newspapers and had a useable knowl
edge of German in six months.’ ’ La
ter in Russia it was necessary to
learn also the Russian language. Thru
conversation with a native Russian
for one hour every day he learned
the language in several months.
In 1928 he introduced Dorothy
Thompson (who was sad over her di
vorce from Joseph) and Sinclair
Lewis (sad over his divorce from
Gracie) and very soon the two, find
ing consolation in one another no
doubt were married. And Knicker
bocker got Dorothy Thompson’s
job.
From 1928-1933 the reporter ob
served the five-year plan in Russia.
For his correspondence in the pro
ject he was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize in 1930. Now, while he isn’t
lecturing, he is with the Internation
al News Service as traveling corre-
sjwndent.
Mr. Knickerbocker is a Democrat,
a member of Sigma Delta Chi and
Kappa Alpha fraternities, has two
daughters by his second wife (who
is, incidentally, half American and
half Italian), whose names are Ana
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Pia Miranda Maria and Julia Marit
(in reverse order). Ana’s first name
is for her god mother, the second for
an aunt, the third for Mr. Knicker
bocker’s own pleasure, and the last
for the child’s nurse. He failed to
relate the story of Julia!
While he was talking, a telegram
was brought in from John O’Hara,
Beverly Hills, California. ‘ ‘ Happy
Birthday, Nick. I still haven’t for
gotten the Paris incident.” Although
he couldn’t quite remember the Paris
incident (that is^ that’s what he
said), he did say that day was the
only time he’d seen John O’Hara.
This little thing — a birthday greet
ing from a total-stranger-minus-
one-day, shows the friendliness of
Mr. Knickerbocker’s personality, and
how readily acquaintances respond
to him.
“Journalism is a wide field and
one well worth a person’s while. The
main qualification is curiosity.” At
this point Mr. McEwen entered the
room. The next moment both the
men were rushing out the door to
go to the Rondthaler’s for dinner
and there went our speaker of Wed
nesday evening — Hubert Renfro
Knickerbocker.
“Say It With Flowers”
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ANALYSES EUROPEAN
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character. He gave illustrations and
incidents in the life of Mr. Hitler
which brought out his characteris
tics — belief in force, lack of per
sonal lionor, sense of humor, utter
satisfaction from contact with the
masses of German people. He
brought out the fact that the Ger
man temperament is impressed by
and fully subjected to the personal
ity of Hitler, which to a foreigner
seems mediocre and most unimpres
sive.
S'aying he could not understand
the indifference of the people of the
world to the outcome of the present
war between Germany and the Al
lies, Mr. Knickerbocker explained
what would no doubt happen if the
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war is won by Germany, or perhaps
even by Russia. Germany plans na
tional race extermination as is now
going On in Polanl. Russia proposes
to communize the world. The greatest
thing that has happened at the pres
ent time is the Finnish resistance to
Russia. The world sees the real
weakness of the Russian army: Ger
many can get no supplies from Rus
sia at present, there might now be a
revolution in Russia. Mr. Knicker
bocker feels strongly that now is
the time for the United States to act
to its best interest and send aid to
Finland.
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