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Updated: June 4, 2025


And now Henry Harding Seeley isn't any too sure of keeping his job on the copy-desk." "That's what the New York newspaper game can do to you if you stick at it too long," murmured the other. "Back to the farm for mine." It was long after midnight when these two put on their coats and bade the city editor's desk a perfunctory "Good-night."

"Then you've got to aim at the executive end. Begin by taking a copy-desk." "At forty a week?" "It isn't so long ago that twenty-five looked pretty big to you, Ban." "A couple of centuries ago," stated Banneker positively. "Forty a week wouldn't keep me alive now." "You could write a lot of specials. Or do outside work." "Perhaps. But what would a desk lead to? "City editor. Night city editor.

It now informed his answer to Van Cleve's characterization of his job. "If I can sneak a tenth of the truth past the copy-desk," he said, "I'm doing well. And what sort of man am I when I go up against these big-bugs of industry at their conventions, and conferences, appearing as representative of The Courier which represents their interests? A damned hypocrite, I'd say!

"Well, I'm no Socialist," said the political reporter, "but I'm a newspaper man, and I say it's news when a Socialist does a thing just as much as when any one else does it. Yet if I tried to print it, they'd give me the laugh on the copy-desk."

This was the kind of man that trudged heavily into the little German cafe of an early morning after his long night's slavery at the copy-desk. His mind, embittered and sensitive to slights like a raw nerve, was brooding over the open taunt of the night city editor, who had been an office boy under him in the years gone by.

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