Taking down stories over the telephone, coordinating them, revamping them, the rewrite man softly cursing the reporter for not getting more and better facts, is routine in every newspaper office. But last week the New York Telegram received a story by telephone which occasioned no cursing, which no one dared rewrite.
It began: "After one of the most unsuccessful trips to Europe on record, Louis Salazacheck, 20, of 52 Jefferson St., New York, tonight warned all would-be stowaways to stay away from the United
States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the...
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