“Hollywood reinforced my infatuation with newspapers. I identified with the small-town editor standing up to the crooks, the tough reporter winning the story and the girl, and the foreign correspondent outwitting enemy agents.”
—Harold
Evans (1928-2020), legendary editor, journalist and author, in Robert D.
McFadden, “Harold
Evans, Crusading Newspaperman With a Second Act, Dies at 92,”
NYTimes, Sept. 24, 2020. Image:
Jack Manning/The New York Times
• Editorial Comment: Don't forget leaping tall buildings, etc.
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