A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 9, 1982

William A. Henry III was sitting on the sidelines covering a schoolboy football game for his North Plainfield, N.J., high school newspaper when his journalism career began. A reporter from the Plainfield Courier-News showed up late and asked Henry what had happened. Impressed with Henry's colorful recounting of the game, the old pro soon thereafter helped the 16-year-old land a part-time job at the paper. Henry's career continued at Yale, where he was executive editor of both the Yale Daily News and the Yale Banner yearbook and co-author of three published books.

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