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just reflecting what their editors wanted?

Yes. They knew perfectly well that three men killed in Harlem wasn't worth a spit.

Any other Tribune memories before we stop today?

Yes. I'd get on a subway thinking I was going to 86th Street and Lexington and next thing I knew I was somewhere out in Brooklyn. [laughs]

You got lost all the time?

Oh, God! You see, I'd never been to New York. I started work practically immediately with no knowledge of the system.

Why did you want to leave the Tribune?

Money.

Just better job?

I did ask what was my future, and they said, “Well, if you're very good, three years from now you should be making forty dollars.”

At the Tribune, they said this?