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Shrinking Market. Of the hundreds who freelance for a living, only a fortunate few succeed. Havemann's annual in come has exceeded $50,000. During the last twelve months, his byline appeared 13 times in five magazines. He also published his fourth book, Men, Women, and Marriage...
...magazines, among them Collier's, American Magazine, Coronet and Woman's Home Companion, have folded in the past seven years. Last month the Saturday Evening Post, which used to receive 100,000 unsolicited manuscripts a year, announced that henceforth all of them would be sent back unopened. Havemann's reputation insulates him from such vicissitudes. He does not have to solicit magazines; they solicit him. Of every four articles he writes, three stem from some editor's suggestion. "I can't imagine a story I'd turn down," he says...
Gentleman's Agreement. Born in St. Louis 50 years ago, Havemann aspired at first to replace his father as the world's greatest handicapper, a title that Havemann père claimed with total spuriousness for most of his 82 years. "My father was a bum," says Havemann affectionately. "The best job he ever had was driving a laundry truck." In his skinnier days, however, Father Havemann jockeyed horses and, when he put on too much weight to ride, cultivated a passion for losing money at tracks. Like father, like son. Young Ernie bought his first Daily Racing...
...Louis' Washington University, he made a beeline for the newsroom of the St. Louis Star-Times, which was even then mortally ill (it died in 1951). "I picked the Star-Times because it was the lowest-paying place and seemed most likely to hire a kid," says Havemann. He was taken on as a $15-a-week baseball and football writer, two sports that he knew nothing about. Shifted to rewrite man, Havemann ground out 3,000 to 4,000 words a day. "It was great training,'' he says. "I wrote so much that going home...
...Although Havemann rose to better jobs and better publications, the conviction grew that harness was for horses and not for him. In 1956, after nine years as an articles writer for LIFE, Havemann moved off the masthead. Before leaving, he suggested that he go on producing at least four LIFE articles a year, a gentleman's agreement that has since ripened into a contract...