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Show Slaves of the Pen j C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, said the other day that he remembered the time when the Guardian Guard-ian had only two sub-editors and two leader writers. The leader writers, it seems, worked on alternate days, "and usually contradicted each other." Dinner Din-ner was held sacred, and they habitually habitu-ally quitted the office at five o'clock sharp. "There Is a tradition," relates Mr. py. Scott, "that on a particular day the - news arrived at five o'clock of the battle of Sedan. A clerk rushed In with a telegram, but the leader writer had on his hat and coat. 'I am gone,' he said, 'I am gone.' " |