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Show Whltelaw Held. Whitelaw Reid is sparely elongated of frame, and suffers his dusky lovelocks to flutter in negligent profusion behind his ears. He is urbane of manner, though he married money. He is also three-and-fifty, and made his first success in journalism as a war correspondent, un-: un-: der the signature of "Agate." After the , war he wrote an elaborate "History of Ohio in the War," which attracted the attention of Chief Justice Chase, and he invited Mr. Reid to accompany him on his southern trip in 1866, an account of which he wrote. The chief justice introduced him to Horace Greeley, who made him his secretary sec-retary and managing editor of The Tribune, Trib-une, and since Greeley's death in 1873 he has been editor-in-chief. He was at one time superintendent of schools at Charleston, Charles-ton, S. C Frank Leslie's. |