I started as a reporter for my father’s daily newspaper in Sulphur Springs at age 16. The Daily News-Telegram was perhaps the smallest daily in Texas then and therefore a good place for me to learn to put words together into sentences and sentences together into paragraphs. I covered high school sports during the academic year and Little League games in summer, while interviewing the city manager in the morning and riding patrol with deputy sheriffs at night. Best of all, when the managing editor took his vacation, I convinced my dad to let me take over, laying out pages and editing all the copy. It was heaven, and I was still too young to vote!
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