| Show RAISED AS HIS SA L 11 R Y way tny in AvIll elt storey lunk hed irma lino writer who Cun soil n how 1 I was slashing col copy y on old storeys Sto reys chicago times many years ago said one of the guests at a reunion dinner we had a correspondent in an illinois town tow n who simply L would not schedule his matter but as lie he generally 1 sent good stuff we lot let him run on slashing his stuff to suit the exigencies I igen cies of the night besides his stuff always suggested good headlines and that was 0 one ne of storeys Sto reys hob hobbies blez on one on 3 occasion the correspondent sent up about words which went into with nothing over on the words I 1 constructed a headline which was right up to the mark the next day I 1 was instructed to tell the nian man who made out the checks for the country correspondents spon dents to knock sa 5 off the tha correspondents spon dents pay when he received his hift check he wrote to mr storey saying that under ordinary circumstances he kick hick about the deduction but in thia particular instance he did because 0 the fool headline over the item made by a fool telegraph editor had bad infuriated the man whose namo nama wa was mentioned in the dispatch and brought on a fl between him and the correspondent spon dent the result of which was that the correspondent was fined 5 in the police court mr storey was a very just man when yo you t got at him in the right way he instructed the cashier to sund send the ec respondent correspondent the amount ot or the fine and raised my iny salary because the headline I 1 wrote had caused a row that was his way of encouraging a headline writer new N york sun sim I 1 y I 1 A |
