The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-14
THE STAFF CORRESPONDENTS

Alec Woollcott owes much oi his fame to bad notice, which he wrote for The Times. IL began q ieud with the ShuDcrtS The paper, backing Wooilcott. showed it8 de- slance to the Shuberts by giving him A by-line, AL almost unheard Cf thing on the Times Woollcott signed everything thereafter, and still remembers Lee Shubert in his prayers.
 James Gordon Bennett the elder, was a ball of fire in the carly days lie always reported the horse whipping he suffered, and once ne came out in print demanding that Horace Greeley be hanged.
 The younger Bennett, who for sock N. '. for Paris in later years kept his staff Iittery with sudden aismlaSals. Every time he sum lnoncd q biggic 10 Paris the latter would come home joblesa. One man, thinking he vas doomed anyway, vent girling and liquoring around Paris and ignored Bennett. This made such a hit with the old boy the rebel survived an endless career Gn The Sun.
 Staifers Of PM have sym pathizer in publisher IngefsO!l, If he feels as he once did. InReraoll threw up his first reporting Job in rage and disgust when his city desk used data he had pledged his word to his source wouldn't be printed.
 Ambrose Bierce, the West Coast correspondent who vanished on an assignment in Mexico, was the fast est copy-makcr Of his day He wrote with the speed that the late Floyd Gibbons flashed in his speech. Bierce used pencil because "the ink boiled and the pen got rcd lot"
 Gibbons made his Eame before the Chi-Trib sent him to cover the first World War. He clicked cOV- cring the siege of Cameron Dam, Wisconsin, the story Of a farmer Runninq againstt he posse 10 pre- vent lumber interests from floating logs through his land.
 The first sob-sister made her ap- pearance locally in 1895 She got sticky over the plight Of Marie Bar beri on trial for shooting one Dom encio Cataldo into his grave. The man had told her "oniy pigs marry
 And the first femme colulnnlst hereabouts was Marguerite Marshall
 New Yorks first, and only, lady city desk editor was Laura Vitrsy, who ran the staff for the departed Graphic.
 Lots of smart kids landed on the dailics. Elsie Mccormack was writ ing a weekly column for San Francisco sheet At the age of II .. Channing Pollock vas rapping shows for Washington daily at J6 =. Walter LippmanH Whi8ked through Harvard in 5 years.
 The news letter, which sprung up several years ago. vas tAc form Of most Of America's first newspapers. James Campbell established one of the first He was fired as Boston postmaster for running Il Sldelinc and retaliated by refusing to send his sheet through the malls.
 Two great journalists were handi- capped with bad cSesight. Charles A. Dana, famous editor of The Sun. had to leave Harvard because his defective vision made reading and writing painful . And Joa, Pulit- ger, who came from Hungary to en- list in the Union Army, died blind after founding t%o Of our greatest papers
 C. E. Shaw was the first notable 10 revolt against he monkey suit for critics. He invaded the Lon don black lie section at first nights in baggy tWced&, and then laughed out loud at the gooey scenes 10 call attention to himself, the ragamuf- fin,
 Lincoln Steffens vas such good reported for the old Post that he got in bad with the cashier. He got paid on space and collected 20