1 option
From Cornfield to Press Gallery : adventures and reminiscences of a veteran Washington correspondent / by Louis Ludlow ; illustrated by C. K. Berryman.
LIBRA - Rare PN4874.L8 A3
By Request
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ludlow, Louis, 1873-1950, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- [8], 432 pages, [27] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimilies ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Published by W. F. Roberts Company, Inc., 1924.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- The Beginning
- Parleying with "Perk"
- Knocking the Wind Out of Two Rods of Words
- Sailing with God the Seas
- Interviewing the Priest's "Wife"
- More Sailing on the Emersonian Seas-Boat Nearly Capsizes
- Knocked Out in Less Than One Round
- I Meet a New and Jovial Acquaintance-Mr. Sparkling Water
- Ingersoll to the Rescue
- Satisfying an Editor Who Was "From Missouri"
- Partisan Journjalism of the Slap-stick Variety
- Scooping the Boss, or Popping the Question
- Anecdotes of the Good Old Days
- How Kern's Irresistible Logic Converted Keach so That He Was Unable to Become Unconverted
- Postmaster General New Began His Publishing Career at the Short-Dress Age
- How a Bullfrog Story Helped to Croak a Promising Career
- Off for Washington
- When Editors Get Nervous the Correspondent Winces
- How Washington News is Gathered
- Post-Graduate Four-Flushers and Thirty-Third Degree Bunk Artists
- Hokum for the Nation's Defenders
- Washington, the Beautiful City, Often Strewn with Political Wrecks
- My Break with John E. Lamb and Its Happy Culmination
- The Pernicious Lobby Now Only a Memory
- Public Men Are Human, After All
- Keeping Faith Is the Law of News
- Orators I Have Known
- Vice Presidents I Have Known
- Presidents I Have Known
- Taft's All-Embracing Brotherhood and Wilson's Austere Isolation
- Hardin the Hardest Worker of All
- President Coolidge-Safe, Calm, Unfettered; a Good Man at the Helm
- Sitting at the Top of the World
- Politics a Scrambled Dish to This Correspondent-Broader National Viewpoint Needed
- A Newspaper Writer's Observations on Religion-Faith Expressed in Salvation Army as the Organization That Applied the Healing Touch
- Newspaper Men Are Born, Not Made
- A Retrospect and an Appreciation.
- Notes:
- "The author desires to tender thanks to his friend, Clifford K. Berryman, the distinguished cartoonist, whose graphic pen and ink illustrations are a highly valued part of this volume."
- Local Notes:
- PN4874.L8.A3: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has dark blue textured boards stamped in gilt on front cover and spine with small illustration of U.S. Capitol on lower right hand corner of front cover. Autograph of Gerald Weales 1941 on front pastedown. Copy has pages 431-432 and back free endpaper detached from text.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ludlow, Louis, 1873-1950. From cornfield to press gallery.
- OCLC:
- 910228
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.