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Show Hi was a. daisy. But as a Reporter He Made an Awful Binder Bin-der on a Big Scoop. "As funny a thing as I ever knew of in the newspaper business, " said the reformed re-formed reporter, "was the way Sandy McLean gave the Chicago Tribune a Bcoop. Now, Saudy, to my way of thinking, think-ing, is the best reporter in Chicago. He was a lawyer once, and a mighty good one, but he saw that the law had no such opportunities as the newspaper business, and he came to Chicago from the Iowa town where he was practicing and began work on "one of the big dailies. He hadn't been there a week before be-fore the managing editor realized that he had a star, and Sandy was given every ev-ery opportunity to make himself a name. "He made it too. He was put on big-6tory big-6tory after big story and beat every oth-er oth-er reporter in the city. After a time he got to The Tribune and kept up his brilliant bril-liant work. He was with The Tribune for a long time. The Herald and other papers wranted him, but Sandy stuck to The Tribune. He got a bit free and gay, but the old man 'put up with him. Finally Fi-nally patience ceased to be a virtue, and one day Sandy drifted into the office nly to be told that they thought they might be able to get out a paper without him if they hustled. "Ho went out whistling gayly and walked over to Tho Herald office. He told them The Tribune peoplo had juat fired him and asked for a job. The Herald Her-ald was too glad to get him. They snapped snap-ped him up right away. The next day S.mdy reported for an assignment. The :ity editor of The Herald put him on a big story he had been keeping on the ice for awhile and told Sandy that it was exclusive. "Sandy went out and got the facta He found that he was tho first and only newspaper man who knew anything about the tale, and it was a corker. H6 6tarted back to the office to write it np. He had been so ased to going to Th Tribune office that he mechanically got off the car there and walked up into tha local room. Ho sat clown at his old desk, wrote tho story and handed it to the city editor. Tho city editor saw that the story was sensational, put a scare heaJ on it and ran it on tho first pago. The Tribune was the only paper that had it, and Sandy did not wako up to what he had dono until ho had got a noto from The Herald city editor next morning calling him all sort3 of names and dis charging him. He got back on The Tribune, though, a" ' he's there yet " Buffalo Ezzrcrz I Albert Durer's wife was stingy and copt him at work day and night for fear ;hey would starve. His biography says, "She tormented him until ho dried up ;ike a bundle of straw, " |