178:, and smaller local associations now lost to journalistic memory that covered the courthouses and port of New York. The book covered the perils of libel suits, the division of labor between reporters and re-write men, female journalists, the descent of good newspapermen into press agents, the role of photography and photographers, the birth of radio news, and the newly founded schools of journalism with their graduates "pestering city editors for jobs that do not exist".
170:. Its purpose, according to the author, was to describe the contemporary journalism scene in America, but it also gave the historical background of then-current newspaper trends, including the dawn of the tabloid age in the early 1920s and the ongoing consolidation of many local papers into a few daily giants. It described organizations that serviced newspapers such as the
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in 1940. From then on he wrote freelance for magazines and newspapers. His first wife died in 1944, and he remarried two years later to a newspaperwoman named Ruth Alden Howell. He moved back to his hometown of
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Stanley Walker was born to William Walker, a one-time teacher turned farmer, and his wife Cora Stanley. The first of five sons, he grew up working on the family farm, later attending Lampasas High School where he was a member of the debate team. After graduating in 1915 he attended the
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He is not only handsome, but he has the physical strength which enables him to perform great feats of energy. He can go for nights on end without sleep. He dresses well and talks with charm. Men admire him; women adore him; tycoons and statesmen are willing to share their secrets with
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