Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterans that remained, one of the best-paid and most eccentric was Bill Cunningham, temperamental sports artist of the Boston Post. Not syndicated, he filed a tax return last year on an income of $50,000. His salary from the Post was $21,000; the rest he got from magazine articles, lectures, radio broadcasting and assorted chores...
...prodigious worker, Bill Cunningham does his column every day, for Sunday produces six columns on Saturday's football game. On Sunday too he writes a full-length feature story about any subject that comes into his head. An average day brings him 70 letters, and all of them get answered anywhere from a week to a couple of months later. In his 17 years with the Post he has never taken a vacation...
...profession notorious for the latitude it allows its writers, Bill Cunningham writes absolutely as he pleases. On the day after Britain declared war on Germany he began his column: "There's blood on the paper this morning." That day (as frequently happens) he had nothing at all to say about sports. "They bury a world when they go to war," wrote Bill Cunningham, who knew. "Yeah. Walk softly, and with your hat in your hand...
Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry...