newspaperman

Me, a mild-mannered, bespectacled newspaperman, suddenly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

As newspapermen nationwide wielded “Southland” in rhetorical brawls, Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the new Los Angeles Daily Times, started doing the same.

“I talked to the newspaperman later and said, ‘You are a good American, aren’t you — you love your country?’”

Looking back at those papers isn’t just the nostalgia of an old newspaperman.

Roth was a “red diaper baby,” the Jewish son of communists; his father was newspaperman and university teacher and his mother was an executive at United Artists.