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...rather milarious parties given by the brothers zangwill from one of which a large crowd returned in a hansom cab. Will Rothensiein on the roof and Phill May doing a great deal about driving the horse. And there was a group of literary men who gathered at the Crown Cub. The book ends at the beginning of Grant Richards' so distinguished career as a publisher. "Being twenty-four", he remarks, "I had no misgivings, I was like the little bear who had all his troubles before...
...Literary Monthly, became editor of the Literary Digest. In the same year Arthur Stimson Draper was graduated from New York University, where he had been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit his job as assistant editor of the Herald Tribune to take Editor...
...worked his way through his father's college (Moores Hill) by corresponding for the Indianapolis News, of which another Indianan, Meredith Nicholson, was editor. There, after college, he got his first regular job. In 1896 he joined the Scripps Cincinnati Post as a cub police reporter. Three years later he was managing editor. Excepting a five-year interlude in Indianapolis, Editor Martin's career for the next 25 years was in the old Scripps and young Scripps-Howard organizations. He edited the Cleveland Press, became editorial chief of all Scripps-papers in Ohio, headed Scripps-Howard...
...cherish the days when I was a cub reporter, because in that period one never knows exactly where the next story is coming from. Consequently, a news break is like a rainbow in the sky. But this column-writing business is another story. Anybody who thinks a column a day, year in and year out, must be just too much fun for anything, can step right into my office for a bust in the snoot...
Fairly typical of first-rate newshawks is short, swart, banjo-eyed Norman Klein, 35. As a cub reporter he covered churches for the Sioux City Tribune, migrated by jumps to the Chicago Daily News. For two years he served that paper as War correspondent on the British front. Next he worked for the Chicago Tribune as "the world's worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway...