Dead. That’s what the man was when they found him with a knife in his back at 4 p.m. in front of Riley’s saloon at the corner of 52nd and 12th Streets.
- Robert Hendrickson
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Quote for Tuesday
“Write short dramatic leads to your stories,” [James] Thurber’s editor told him during his early days as a newspaper reporter. Soon after, he turned in a murder story that began:
Dead. That’s what the man was when they found him with a knife in his back at 4 p.m. in front of Riley’s saloon at the corner of 52nd and 12th Streets.
Dead. That’s what the man was when they found him with a knife in his back at 4 p.m. in front of Riley’s saloon at the corner of 52nd and 12th Streets.
