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A Scripps-Howard star reporter emerged last week as a full-fledged columnist. Thomas Lunsford ("Tom") Stokes signed a new contract with United Feature Syndicate, and went to the head of the columnar class in the New York World-Telegram, bellwether of the Scripps-Howard chain. Stokes's column...
The top spot in the World-Telegram's column of columns was last regularly occupied by Westbrook Pegler, now gone to Hearst.* But the boots that Tom Stokes is really setting out to fill are those of his great & good friend, the late Raymond Clapper.
Tall, amiable, crinkle-eyed Tom Stokes, 46, one of the nation's shrewdest, most diligent and forthright political reporters, started work under Clapper at United News ("sort of the night side of the U.P.") in Washington in 1923. He says, "I really learned whatever I know about politics and...
The lesson in reporting that Tom Stokes remembers best came on the day when, with a shiny new Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Georgia dangling on his vest, he reported for work at the Savannah Press. Managing Editor William G. ("Billy") Sutlive looked him over dourly, barked...
*United Feature Syndicate promptly announced that it would syndicate the Stokes articles nationally; they have previously appeared only in the 19 Scripps-Howard papers.