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...wonder about most wonder boys is whatever became of them. But no one in the magazine field has to ask what happened to Otis L. Wiese. Twenty years ago this week he was hired by McCall's as a cub assistant. A year later, at 23, he was editor, and took the floundering magazine and its 2,000,000 ladies by the hand. Last week they were still holding hands; the magazine had long stopped floundering and the ladies numbered...
...check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time. But only gaunt Damon Runyon, suffering from cancer, gallstones and cirrhosis of the liver, had known how heavily he had borrowed...
...many years Huxley was director of the London Zoo, took a lion cub along to one of his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
...went after big game in its natural habitat. With a party of 21, eight bear-dogs and an observation plane, he ventured to Bemidji, Minn, for the first organized bear hunt in Minnesota history. Result of a week's hunting: one 400-lb. black bear, one 90-lb. cub, one wolf, 50 porcupine quills in one of the dogs. The Bemidji Chamber of Commerce gave the visiting hunters a bear-steak dinner, slyly provided them with sleeping quarters in a Boy Scout camp...
...Cub reporters on Chicago's grimy police beat are not likely to be treated with courtesy. But this one was. Last week at the East Chicago Avenue station, the police lieutenant on duty deferentially showed him the lockup, the blotter, wished him the best of luck. At the County Building, Coroner A. L. Brodie bustled about, personally paced the newcomer through the office routine. Young (30), Harvard-accented Marshall Field IV took everything in with urbane interest. He was entering Phase 2 of his journalistic education...