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...radio programs came to Radio Researcher Jean Sulzberger from the copy desk. It had been written from research sent in by our Washington Bureau. Its lead paragraph was three stanzas of a poem (a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Children's Hour) by the late Stoddard King, newspaperman, versifier and songwriter. Permission to reprint King's verse would have to be obtained from the copyright owner, but that is usually routine. This time it wasn...
...editor of the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, for which King had been a columnist and editorial writer, and told him her problem. That night he called back to say that a search of the paper's files had revealed nothing. "By the way," he added, "are you sure Stoddard King wrote...
...wanted to talk to her husband, who had gone to his job at the Bell Furniture Co. The Bell store manager wanted to know the same thing before summoning Knight. After satisfying Knight's curiosity as to how TIME happened to hear of him, he announced that the Stoddard King verse was in his scrapbook at home. He thought he had clipped it originally from the Spokane Daily Chronicle...
...right. They had persuaded Jack Knight to get his scrapbook and bring it to the Chronicle office. The clipping was carefully removed and the reverse side showed that it was from the Spokesman-Review on a March 6th. It turned out to be March 6, 1933, three months before Stoddard King died...
...Stoddard King...