That was generally regarded as a very choice job in the newspaper business. One day he suddenly quit as London correspondent for the Herald Tribune. Tom Wolfe, one of his colleagues in the Herald Tribune’s New York office, later recalled: Dick didn’t take the hint.”Īfter a year in London, Portis surprised everyone in the business. Dick Wald was my New York boss, and I told him once that the Tribune might have saved us all a lot of grief if it had only paid Marx a little better. Four decades later, in 2001, he joked during an interview about how “Marx was the London correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune in the 1850s. The previous November, shortly after Sir Alec Douglas-Home became prime minister and weeks before President Kennedy was assassinated, Portis became head of the London bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. “In 1964, in the midst of so-called Swinging London, Charles McColl Portis had Karl Marx’s old job,” begins editor Ed Park in his appreciation of the author. Courtesy Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York. New York Zoological Park.” Postcard printed by American Colortype Co., 1907. Norwood | True Grit | The Dog of the South | Masters of Atlantis | Gringos | stories & other writings | 1,105 pages
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