Sid Whipple '10-Man Extraordinary

Anyone who can command one o£ Westbrook Pegler's entire columns rates special space in this MAGAZINE. Our one regret is that we cannot produce that recent column verbatim for Pegler is as forthright in telling about his old friend, Sidney Whipple, Dartmouth 19x0, as he is about certain other pet subjects.

But we'll lift words and sections. "Our subject is Sidney B. Whipple," writes Pegler, "who does theatres for the World-Telegram,. . . .a little fellow .... the type is a vanishing breed ... .he can write foreign stuff from cables, turning out a noon or closing lead on the market, go out and get a story by hand, whether an interview or an up-the-dark-and-creakingstairs piece about a sick child, toss off jingle-verse, read copy, file a wire, fill in on sports, or compose an editorial for or against anything

"There were never many as versatile as Sidney who, for extra, can tell cockney jokes dating from the time we worked a trick in London and spent his nights frequenting 'alls, play piano by ear like an old-time professor, and when we were very young, could skin a cat on those white-enameled strap-hangers in the subway... .discipline under him would be pretty informal.... any young reporter who worked for him and really paid attention was bound to learn the business if he was any good whatever

"He wrote a play once, and did a biographical novel but mainly he is just a thoroughbred newspaperman —which, of course, is one reason why there haven't been more of him and aren't more of him now in the business."