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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 1-17, 1918

1918-03-12 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

It looks out on a pretty garden and up a hillside of clambering grey walls. 
This morning I reported for duty. There was not much for me to do except look on and get the hang of things. There are three other lieutenants here ahead of me. We have some fourteen automobiles with the necessary drivers at our disposal to use in sending correspondents to the front and in taking visitors about. The correspondents usually go alone. The casual visitors have to be escorted. You can readily imagine how interesting I find it to be thrown into such close contact with newspaper men whose stuff I have been analyzing and interpreting in the class room and whom I have heard much of in newspaper offices. At lunch today Floyd Gibbons of The Chicago Tribune was in our party. He looks like a pug, and talks like one, but writes like a genius.  Irvin Cobb was at the table next

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It looks out on a pretty garden and up a hillside of clambering grey walls. This morning I reported for duty. There was not much for me to do except look on and get the hang of things. There are three other lieutenants here ahead of me. We have some fourteen automobiles with the necessary drivers at our disposal to use in sending correspondents to the front and in taking visitors about. The correspondents usually go alone. The casual visitors have to be escorted. You can readily imagine how interesting I find it to be thrown into such close contact with newspaper men whose stuff I have been analyzing and interpreting in the class room and whom I have heard much of in newspaper offices. At lunch today Floyd Gibbons of The Chicago Tribune was in our party. He looks like a pug, and talks like one, but writes like a genius. Irvin Cobb was at the table next