LIONEL JAMES (Blickensderfer)
Lionel James organising his ground-breaking coverage
of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05.
ELLIS ASHMEAD BARTLETT (Empire)
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett
ERNIE PYLE (Underwood)
Ernie Pyle
LEWIS R. FREEMAN (Corona)
Lewis Ransome Freeman (1878-1960), an American explorer and journalist, used and wrote endorsements for Corona 3 and four-bank portable typewriters. He also served as a war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. During World War I he was a correspondent with the British, French and Italian armies from 1915 to 1917. He was a correspondent attached to the Grand Fleet late in the war, and was a staff member for the Inter-Allied Naval Armistice Commission which traveled to Germany in 1918. In 1925 he was a special correspondent with the US Navy Pacific Fleet on its cruise to Australasia. Below are Corona advertisements for which Freeman wrote the copy.
Lewis R. Freeman in the Colorado River, Arizona, 1923.
MARGUERITE HIGGINS (Hermes)
Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) mostly used a Hermes Baby portable typewriter (but sometimes an Erika portable and Underwood portable and standard) in her many travels as a war correspondent. She covered World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. Higgins worked for New York Herald Tribune (1942-1963) and as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963–1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence, awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War. Higgins covered the Nuremberg war trials and the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin and later headed the Tribune's Moscow bureau.
Marguerite Higgins
AND FINALLY AN ARCH IMPOSTOR (Corona)
Jacques Alexis Albert Dudley von Mourik de Beaufort (1880?-1915?). After causing much trouble in Scotland in 1908 and Chicago in 1910, "Count" de Beaufort was in Europe during World War I, and did file stories to American newspapers (claiming to represent the London Daily Telegraph and the International News Service) - from Germany! However, according to a letter from his "mother", he was killed by German fire while "fighting for France" at Nieuwpoort in Flanders, Belgium, in March 1915. And yet the very next month he was filing copy from Berlin. And a year later he was apparently arrested for speeding in London. Then in 1917 he eloped with the 18-year-old daughter of a wealthy Terre Haute, Indiana, merchant, for possibly his third marriage. Nobody can be sure about anything regarding "Count" Jack (or Mick or James) de Beaufort of the Duchy of Luxembourg, since no such person ever existed. This was an arch liar and fraudster who variously claimed to be Dutch, Belgian, French and a Luxembourger, but who did marry Irma Elinor, the daughter of Chicago steel magnate Martin H. Kilgallen, in London in 1909, thinking this would put him on easy street back in the US. It didn't. The marriage soon collapsed, but the "Count" managed to keep his pet bulldog Bob, and went into vaudeville, then newspaper work. Or did he? Nothing is certain with this impostor. (The recently remarried Irma, the ex-"Countess de Beaufort", shot herself to death in a room in the Hotel Fountenelle in Omaha, Nebraska, in April 1916.)
The cheating "Count" de Beaufort with Bob.