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The daily edition was selling for two cents a copy in 1937 and was about to go up a penny. Its circulation had gone over 500,000 for the first time in its history, and the Sunday edition was almost 770,000.

The Times had, as always, many fine reporters but almost no fine writers. Its one notable exception, Meyer Berger, whose descriptive coverage of Al Capone’s tax trial in Chicago in 1932 had quickly established his credentials, had quit The Times in 1937 for The New Yorker, although he would return a year later, discovering that he worked best

There was nothing of the farmer in him.

This is a quality that perhaps cannot be learned but is inherent in certain rare young men who, partly because they are very bright and do not flaunt it, and partly because they are respectful and not privileged, confident but not too confident, attract the attention of older men, self-made men, and receive from these men much advice and help.