![]() ![]() The city was a railroad hub and drugs, heading from Mexico to Chicago and New York, passed through it. Manly contributed poetry–well, verse–to both papers, much of it anonymous, but mostly he worked as a reporter and in Wichita then, crime made up quite a lot of the news. Manly’s job didn’t change, and he continued working directly under his brother. (What you see today with Fox News on one side and National Public Radio on the other was even more strongly and generally the case of rival newspapers in Manly’s day.) When a Republican bought the Beacon, the entire staff marched down the street and were hired by the Wichita Eagle, whose Republican staff passed them going in the other direction because Democrats now owned the Eagle. When Manly got out of college in the 1920s, Paul as editor of the Wichita Beacon gave Manly his first full-time job–as a reporter.Īt the time, newspapers were generally the voice of a particular political party. He was close to his (two years older) brother Paul for all of their mutual lives. In many respects, Manly was as much of a journalist as he was a fiction writer. ![]()
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