One of the reporters there was pounding out something on a typewriter.

Edward Norman began to write an editorial.

The DAILY NEWS was an evening paper, and Norman usually completed his leading editorial before nine o'clock.
He had been writing for fifteen minutes when the managing editor called out: "Here's this press report of yesterday's prize fight at the Resort.

It will make up three columns and a half.

I suppose it all goes in ?" Norman was one of those newspaper men who keep an eye on every detail of the paper.