Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Aug 1935, p. 23

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bertb as assistant professor of jour-. nalism at the State University of Iowa ifltô the war, and chance that made bim a staff officer instead of an 'e infantry officer, chance also, tIbat as-: signed him to the press division, Otit of this assignmienit came the oppor-7 tunity aiter the .war of serving, as journal jsm courses, reporting, editing, and a seminar-the foundation of the school of journaism-and handling the university's publicity. Along came the war to interrupt his labors in qiet Iowa City and carry bimn into oWlcers'ý training camp, the Army War coliege, and eventually to assignment in Franice as' one of the, littie group ATLANTC SOcEAN., tIidL Arlican irinewspaper, tnough Ire- quently compelled to' appear. with colunfins of wbite space because of last minute deletions by the French censor, was extensively quoted in E.urope. as the source of infQrmatjon on« international developments. Sainples Halifax Weether> Returning to the United States Mr. Reynolds worked for a brief time as a newspaper writer.in New York. In 1922 hie passed the examination for the career consuilar service.' Then, fol- iowed, two years as vice-consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia. "ýBefore we wet we feit as bad as if we bad been. assigned to that, most dreaded of posts, Maracaibo,". confesses Mr». Reynolds. drily, "but as. a matter. of fact, we' liked it' very much. We hail a fineplace to live, on an armi of the bay witb sait water on! one side and fresh on 'the' other. Mooseý and déer used to come out of ' the deep forest a t the baclc of the house and nibble at the garden. Mrs. Reynoldls chimed in with,'"The' women used to wear hip boots and rubber coats and carry spiked canes to keep from falling on tbe siippery streets. Realiy, there are fine montbs of cold weat*her in,' Halifax. Wben tbe wind blows from the south, the wecather turns. warm, it rains, or there is a fog. Halifax bas lots of fog. When the wind blows from the north. we'd have sleet and snow, sometimes three feet of it. ,Along about Aizust.- SThe Reynolds have been living at 602 IEarlston road, Kenilworth, during the past three years-"ýIêngest time we've ever lived in one place," coin- ments Mrs. Reynolds gaily, "But let's not taIk aboutitl We might have to move." She playrý ber hunches, and it was. on. her bunch that tbey returned to America.. "If .we just had Coriger. junior (about to enter New Trier in tbe 'faîil),.I would just as soon havre stayed' abroad.' But Dawn, I'refused to brifig up mn a foreign1 countryr. I dont want bier to marry a foreigner."- So the blonde six-year-old, goinig on seven, carnies her, share of resppnsi-, bility:for the family prograrn. "We -were 41l speaking«.German when we-came back," -continues Mrs.. Reynolds, "and à 'was bard for me to. finish a sentence in English.* I always wanted to use a German word or two." Mrs. Re"rolidm Active on Shore Now tboroughly oriented: on the (Conti W REYNQLD/ man aging editor of the Paris of the Chicago Tribune. To arnDli.fvthese. neriods edition of beadquarters officers wbo cbap- eroned war correspondents and visit- in Ili 1 ors ini the figbting, zone anid reisore Botb thje Reyn.olds grinned broadly at tbis, and the reporter decided they were spoofiing, .enlarging upon tbe weil known theme of there being two kinds of weather in Halifax, "winter and August." Just bow the Reynoldls' next move was made, to Stuttgart, Germaüy. wbere hie servied five years a s v ice- consul and tben as consul, was not made quite. clear, but perbaps tbat too was chance, official transfer and that sort of tbing. These years Conger At Youa Hooroaf YOU vec acquireci the Minneapolis Star and Time magazine." Lectures in Journalism WIjen Reynolds was 24, be joine.d SERVICE STATION At Ail BRAUN SILOS. sevhe Statioas

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