Bascom Timmons, Texas-born, became a reporter at 16, managing editor at 20. Lean, long (6 ft. 3½ in.), rangy, an inveterate cigar-chewer, he went to Washington as a friend of John Nance Garner, a correspondent for Jesse Jones's Houston Chronicle and nine other papers in the South.
Last week, as a representative of the press, Bascom Timmons turned up at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was also a delegate from Texas, with one-twelfth vote of his own, absent John Nance Garner's proxy. One afternoon a group of fellow newsmen, bored with the New Deal's lumbering steam roller, hired an open...
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