词条 | Clement Quirk Lane |
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Later he became a columnist, where in 1938 he invented the characters "Oxie O'Rourke" and "Torchnose McGonigle."[3] These were figures in the vein of predecessor Chicago newspaperman Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley" and "Mr. Henessey," stand-ins for the "voice of the people."[4] Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko would take up that tradition afterwards with his character "Slats Grobnik." According to a Time magazine article about his work in January 1944, Lane said, in reference to his creation, Oxie was "the perfect answer for a newspaperman; he can't be scooped because he knows everything. He is the voice of the people west of the tracks."[5][6] Lane was known for his temper; according to his obituary he "ruled the city staff ... in fiery justice."[7] A reporter who began his career under Lane, James McCartney, described him later as "the archetype of the old-fashioned city editor, an Irish Catholic, reformed alcoholic with a high school education, a great mane of white hair ... irascible, immensely honest, tremendously talented, the personification of the newspaper ... and very, very difficult to work for."[8] According to Peter Smith’s memoir, A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors—in part about Smith’s relationship to his father, John Justin Smith, one of Lane’s reporters—Lane produced a memo to guide the writing on his paper sometime in the 1950s. Smith has reproduced that document: To the staff: By and large your writing is clean and sharp. But not always. And there are still laggards among you. Lane Note: after you have mastered these rules, you’ll know enough to know when you can break them. The memo is a notable model of mid-century American newspaper style, whose roots may perhaps go back, through Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain, to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Later in life Lane became involved in Alcoholics Anonymous, helping to establish it in Chicago after that group's founding in Akron, Ohio, in 1935.[9] References1. ^{{cite journal|title=From West of the Tracks|journal=Time|date=January 24, 1944}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Kobler|first=John|title=Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone|year=1971|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-81285-9|pages=432}} 3. ^{{cite journal|title=From West of the Tracks|journal=Time|date=January 24, 1944}} 4. ^{{cite journal|title=From West of the Tracks|journal=Time|date=January 24, 1944}} 5. ^{{cite journal|title=From West of the Tracks|journal=Time|date=January 24, 1944}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=The Press: From West of the Tracks|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,803094,00.html|work=24 January 1944|publisher=Time Inc.|accessdate=8 March 2011|date=24 January 1944}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=Stepp|first=Carl|title=A Dying Breed|url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1571|publisher=American Journalism Review|accessdate=3/1/11}} 8. ^{{cite web|last=Stepp|first=Carl|title=A Dying Breed|url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1571|publisher=American Journalism Review|accessdate=3/1/11}} 9. ^{{cite web|last=Stepp|first=Carl Sessions|title=A Dying Breed|url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1571|work=December 1994|publisher=American Journalism Review|accessdate=8 March 2011}} External links
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