Thirty-one years ago City Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News took on a wide-eyed wholesale grocer's son fresh from Hyde Park High School, sent him out to get pictures of a bathing beauty contest. The cub, named Paul Scott Mowrer, assured himself of what was to prove a lifetime job by returning with a picture of each & every contestant. Last week a staff shuffle occasioned by the death of Managing Editor Smith (TIME, Feb. 17) left onetime Cub Mowrer, now baldish, stout, 48 and famed as a foreign correspondent, sitting...
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