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Roberts is a 300-lb. mass of steaming energy. He starts his day at 6:30a.m. in bed over coffee, orange juice and his morning Times. At 9 he roams the newsroom, mussing a sportswriter's hair, thwacking the telegraph editor on the back. He shakes hands with the copy girls, greets the office pink as Comrade, the city-desk horseplayer as Seabiscuit, the Navy veterans as Admiral. The rest of the day, he holds court...
...week, half a dozen magazines (including the New Republic and the Nation, "to see what the nuts are up to"). Now that he has the title as well as the function of head man, he will still give his audience in public, out in the open in the newsroom. "If I couldn't see people and hear what was going on," he says, "I'd be unable to work. I'd get fidgety...
...Frank Munsey's time (1916-25), violent eruptions which staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed. He and City Editor Edmond Bartnett, after 25 years, still address each other as "Mr." Sun employes, who own part of the paper's stock, have their own little union instead of a Newspaper Guild unit...
...editors finally had their own "castle" a Sanctum on the second floor that could serve as a retreat from the hustling news room, as a hanquet hall for full board dinners, or as a dance floor with star litterace adjacent. Ample space was allowed in the newsroom for strewing copy paper and typewriters wherever needed, while the managing editor and editorializers were provided with isolated nooks for better concentration on their individual problems...
...Evjue is at his best when he has a mad on. As Wisconsin's loudest personal journalist, he lets his purple rages spill over the front page of the Madison Capital Times in roaring editorial torrents. He does not confine himself to print. The hired hands in his newsroom are inured to his thunderous invective...