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...pays a living wage. Sometimes it is 'a stepping stone toward better things.' Again it is a satisfying career in itself." Many a youngster wondering whether or not to "take up journalism" will read Stanley Walker's book and decide against it. For the ambitious cub who gets on a paper and stays there. Author Walker pictures a city-room postgraduate course: "It is like attending some fabulous university where the humanities are studied to the accompaniment of ribald laughter, the incessant splutter of an orchestra of typewriters, the occasional clinking of glasses, and the gyrations...
...competition for the News Board the candidate is put through a routine not unlike that forced upon the cub reporter of the metropolitan paper. He has assignments and must carry them out. But the work is made interesting by the editors in charge and the duties are made as easy as possible...
Honest Inquiry Sirs: When my father was a cub reporter, his first assignment was to beard the testy superintendent of a city hospital to ask if it were true that a patient had recently been put to death for experimental purposes. In the same spirit of honest inquiry-and with perhaps as little tact-I would like to ask if TIME does not sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead...
...most challenging of these skirmishes took place at Harvard University, where members of the Student L.I.D. and the N.S.L. with boldness, had called a strike. A group of Harvard CRIMSON cub candidates was organized by that newspaper into the Michael Mullins Chowder Club, which was to run a counter meeting in "favor of war" in an effort to discredit the whole strike. The Freshman Dining Halls at Cambridge would supply the pro-war exponents with eggs and tomatoes...
Rookies. Training camps, run primarily for advertising, serve a useful purpose as a proving ground for young players. Biggest of this year's rookies is Jim Weaver, 6 ft. 6 in. pitcher for the St. Louis Browns. Most expensive is the Chicago Cubs' young Outfielder George Stainback, bought for $75,000 from Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies' Out fielder Henry Oana is the only Hawaiian in the league. The New York Yankees have Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman...