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...have a sense of living in a world apart. . . . You live only minute by minute through the routine that carries you smoothly, as if drifting down a river, toward the day of battle." Thus Raymond Clapper wrote last week from mid-Pacific. Later, in a Naval air collision on his day of battle in the Marshalls, death came to the stocky, stooped, 51-year-old columnist. He was the 16th U.S. newsman to die in the harness of a war correspondent...
...Clapper was convinced that journalism is the most important of all professions, that fair and honest reporting is its highest skill. His own quiet integrity helped to make him one of the soundest, most independent interpreters of the national and international scene. Unlike many of his colleagues, he refused to be partisan, tried to keep himself free to praise objectively, to criticize with stinging sincerity...
...Clapper learned his trade in the hard, competitive school of the wire services. At 23, a cub in Kansas City, he joined the United Press, four years later scored a notable beat on the choice of Warren Harding in the G.O.P.'s smoke-filled room. He ran the Washington beats, was the U.P.'s chief in the capitol for five years. His Scripps-Howard column, started in 1936, quickly built an audience of 10,000,000 in 187 papers...
...notable for his intense respect for the little citizen, for the sanity of the U.S. mass mind. Ray Clapper's guiding maxim: "Never overestimate the people's knowledge, nor underestimate their intelligence." His rival columnists, without dissent, praised his competence and balance. The U.S. had lost not only an outstanding journalist, but also a plainspeaking, commonsensible spokesman for the people...
...first time since the MacArthur-for-President boom began, the General was interviewed by a top-ranking U.S. political commentator. Reported Columnist Ray Clapper from Australia...