Word: cub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stormy night Bee was assigned to cover a bicycle race, and his packet of "Belleville Notes" missed the train to St. Louis. Chapin gave his cub correspondent a screaming tongue-lashing over the telephone. The quaking Behymer hired a rig, drove 14 miles to put the column of trivia on Chapin's desk. He got no thanks, and Chapin growled when he okayed Bee's expense account for $3 for the horse & rig, but his job was saved. He still thinks Chapin was a great man, "but very unscrupulous. He made a newspaperman out of me by keeping...
...their foxholes on Bougainville and Luzon, two G.I.s hatched a postwar plan. Neither had much of a job to go home to. Corporal Raymond Utin, 24, had worked as a cub on Philadelphia papers. Corporal Fred Schutz, 22, had tried freelancing, never had a story published. Their Skeezix-&-Wilmer idea: a magazine for Manilans...
...Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...
...Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major Gen eral Keller E. Rockey, commander of the III Amphibious Corps, radioed a message to the U.S. commander in chief in China, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer...
Ohio-born Buck Grouse, 52, hopped at 17 from high school to cub reporting, eventually became a columnist on the New York Evening Post, an author of nostalgic Americana (Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives, It Seems like Yesterday). He swung over to Broadway as pressagent for the Theatre Guild. Bawled out for not getting enough publicity for Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, he retorted that he'd managed to get George Washington's picture on 2? stamps...