51. The second involves the importunings of a young reporter at his newspaper named Louella Parsons. 52. The young reporter was Hunter Thompson, who later became famous for a different style of journalism. 53. The wheelchair and rapier-sharp intellect could be intimidating to some people, particularly young reporters. 54. They were Christmas winds all right, the kind I remembered howling off Lake Michigan when I was a young reporter in Chicago. 55. Today, many of the barriers I encountered as a young reporter in Ohio, Pittsburgh, Miami and New York are gone. 56. When a young reporter, Oscar Trevino Jr., revisited the murder in a year-in-review piece months later, his publisher ordered the story killed. 57. When I was a young reporter, I had a friend who wore a Rolex watch that cost more than the car I was driving. 58. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was a young reporter working in Omaha. 59. When I was a young reporter, The Times assigned me to the bureau it had just set up at the brand new United Nations. 60. When we were young reporters, sometimes the gang of us would spend a good part of the night disabling ourselves. |