The cub reporter - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1150890371 ISBN 13: 9781150890376

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII A POLITICAL STORY IT was the first warm night of spring. Up in the Sentinel editorial rooms it was really hot. All the afternoon the late May sun had poured into the unshaded windows back of Hopson's desk, for the seventeenth floor was too high to get any protection from other edifices across from City Hall Park. Down in the financial district the sun scarcely penetrated, and the drafts that swept through the narrow streets kept the temperature down to a comfortable point. Here, however, the atmosphere was well baked, and all the Sentinel men in the city room were working in their shirtsleeves. Perhaps two-thirds of the typewriter-desks had occupants, for the hour was near eleven and most of the evening assignments had reached the stage of literary construction. Hopson always contended that Sentinel English--and the English of most well-edited newspapers--was quite as much entitled to literary distinction as the product of the book and magazine world. / Indeed, he sometimes clipped whole pages from current novels and posted them on the bulletinboard in the city room as examples to be avoided. Certain it was that under Hopson's guidance the diction of the Sentinel men was remarkably direct and intelligible. He had a theory that the best writing was usually done under pressure. Gilicuddy and Waterman and Oppenheim turned out their cleanest and most gripping stories when the minutes were precious and the pages were sent in short "takes" to the composing-room. It was all in the concentration, he held--given the ability, of course, to start with. "The best yarn we've printed in months was that explosion story of Waterman's," he had said more than once; "why, I know at least three novelists who turned green with envy when they read it. One of them rem...

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• ISBN 10: 1150890371
• ISBN 13: 9781150890376
• Einband: Tapa blanda