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Show " HE WAS A DAISY. But as a Reporter He Made an Awful Blun- " -- ' --- 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 Cliicago Tribune a scoop. Now, Sandy, to iny 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 Buch 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 Btory after big story and beat every other 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 wanted 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 only to be told that they thought they might be able to get out a paper without him if they hustled. "He went out whistling gayly and walked over to The Herald office. He told them The Tribune people had just 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 Sandy reported for an. assignment. The :iry editor of The Herald put him on a "big 6tory he had been keeping on the ice for awhile and told Sandy that it was exclusive. "Sandy went out and got the facts. He found that he was the first and only newspaper man who knew anything about the tale, and it was a corker. He started back to the office to write it up. He had been so used to going to The -; Tribune office that he mechanically got off the car there and walked up into the local room. He sat down at his old desk, wrote the story and handed it to the city editor. The city editor saw that the I6tory was sensational, put a scare head on it and ran it on the first page. The Tribune was the only paper that had it, and Sandy did not wake up to what he had done until he had got a note from (The Herald city editor next morning calling him all sorts of names and discharging dis-charging him. He got back, on The 'Tribune, though, a he's there yet" Buffalo Express. |