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set a new world's record the other day
for beating a snare drum for six and a half hours. That is to say he
beat the record.") He has a prodigious memory, and this year won
honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for an obituary
of Sir Ronald Ross, written chiefly from memory. He reads voraciously,
likes to quote Emerson, says he thinks Elbert Hubbard was the best
rewrite man of his age. On occasion Editor Bingay can be exceedingly
sharp-tongued. Reporters under him testify that "he can take the
hide off anyone in about seven sentences." When excited he used to
spit on the floor but has broken himself of the habit.
