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Ronald Glenn Callvert, 68, oldest of the three, has been on the Oregonian since 1909, was assistant and managing editor until he became editorial writer in 1931. Bushy-browed, kindly, he hunts & pecks his tax and fiscal editorials at furious speed on a portable typewriter while chewing an unlit cigar. (All editorialists, like Oregonian reporters, buy their own typewriters.) The story is that Editor Callvert in 1938 was about to be fired because he was too expensive. The idea was dropped when he won the Pulitzer Prize for best editorial of the year...
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