I had done nothing since I left the University but teach English in the Louisville, Kentucky, High School for boys one winter and lecture at the summer school at Chapel Hill one summer.

I made up my mind to go into journalism.

But journalism didn't seem in any hurry to make up its mind to admit me.

Not only did all the papers in North Carolina decline my requests for work, but such of them in Baltimore and Louisville as I tried said 'No.' So I borrowed $50 and set out to St.Joe, Missouri, where I didn't know a human being.

I became a reporter.