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From meager beginnings as a copyboy, Jerome Holtzman worked his way up, becoming "the Dean" of American baseball writers. A Chicago-based reporter and a columnist for the Sporting News, Holtzman made contributions to the game far beyond the press box. He penned an Encyclopaedia Britannica item on America's pastime and invented the statistic now known as the "save," which is the yardstick by which a relief pitcher's ability to preserve leads is measured. It was baseball's first new official stat since "runs batted in" was introduced in 1920. Holtzman, who won entry to the Baseball Hall...
There, his career progressed from copyboy to executive editor, with intermediary stops as a foreign correspondent in New Delhi and the Congo. In addition, it goes pretty much without saying that this seasoned journalist put at least as much care into the crafting of his own story as he must have into each of his thousands for the Times...
Henry's father had been a successful operetta librettist, and as a young man Henry hoped to become a playwright, but he took a job with TIME as a copyboy while earning a degree at New York University. What began as a temporary measure turned out to be a destiny. "I realized in due course that the theater was not really my calling," he once said, "but that journalism--which of course can be theatrical--indeed was." His rise was suitably dramatic. At 28, he became senior editor and 17 years later, in 1968, managing editor. Very quickly, the magazine...
Crist sensed that being a copyboy was how all the legendary Times editors started out. So when the newspaper had called a few weeks earlier to offer him the job—on the condition that he start immediately—the son of newspaper and publishing parents, whose mother was a well-known movie critic, accepted right away...
What got Crist noticed in the Times newsroom was an un-bylined story he wrote as a copyboy about the increase in the price of marijuana...