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had the problem: who was going to write that column? I submitted several columns, and suddenly, in my freshman year, I was the columnist for the Columbia paper! Well, this was an open sesame to everybody and everything.

Do you remember who the editor was at that time?

A fine fellow named James Harrison, Jim Harrison. Heaven knows whatever happened to him.

The head of the School of Journalism then was named Talcott Williams.

I know that name.

Oh, he was a famous man. The School of Journalism in those days was a very famous school. In various classes were Dietz, George Sokolsky, Morrie Ryskind, Corey Ford, Richard Simon, Max Schuster (Simon and Schuster). Come to think of it, Simon was in the College. It was Schuster who was in the School of Journalism.

When the freshman class assembled, I don't know how it happened but I was elected vice-president of the class. I don't know why, because at that time I was nobody. I hadn't even begun to develop but I must have been a little above the norm. A boy named Guy Williams was made the president, and I was made vice-president. The tradition was that newly elected presidents and vice-presidents of the freshman class went in