Ship News

A ship news reporter is a man who goes down the harbor on the pilot boat, rides back on an incoming liner and writes all about the people who are on board. Usually there are a great many people and most of them mean nothing from the standpoint of news. If there is one among them who has invented a safety pin or turned somersaults before King George, it makes a good story, and the ship news reporter writes all about him and strings a few desultory...

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