No man in the land knows more active newsmen than long, lean James D. ("Jim") Preston, 55-year-old superintendent of the U. S. Senate Press Gallery. Last week he decided he knew too many for his own good health, resigned the post he has ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston...
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