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Stanley was the most famed, most colorful city editor in New York City. Around him grows a fine garden of anecdote.

Short, wiry, hardbitten, he was born 33 years ago on a Texas ranch. He went to the University of Texas, later worked for a while on the Dallas News. In 1919 he broke into New York on the old Herald. He was never an outstanding reporter. He stayed with the Herald when Frank Andrew Munsey merged it with the now defunct morning Sim and when Ogden Reid merged it with his Tribune.

He works his staff hard, himself harder. A day with Stanley Walker might begin at 10 a. m. and last (if he is taking both the day and night desks) until midnight. It might include lunch at the Algonquin or a bite with some of his staff in Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon. Back at his desk, smoking innumerable cigars, he would see the first edition onto the presses, return to Blake's, catch a midnight train out to Great Neck, L. I. where he lives. On the train he reads one of the early editions so he can telephone back further instructions when he gets home.
As a writer for the old New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s and 1930s, Walker chronicled the city in words the way Weegee did with a Graflex. City Editor, from 1934, follows his own career at the Tribune as well as offering lessons in the ethics of journalism, freedom of the press, and the corporate influence on editorial.