“The answer to that is easy,” grinned Tim. “I like reporting and if you really like a thing I believe you can do it well.”
“Any flying assignments for you today?”
“Not so far.”
“I’m glad of that. After your gruelling flight of yesterday it will do you good to be out of the air for at least a day.”
Tim returned to his desk and sat down to the routine task of gleaning enough aviation news to make an interesting column. He always tried to work a day in advance on the column. It was well after mid-forenoon when he had completed the column and turned it in at the copydesk.
The city editor, Ed Campbell, a comparative newcomer on the staff, looked up from his assignment book.
“I’ve just received a wire that June O’Malley, new star of the Hollywood Follies, is coming through on the noon plane eastbound. Can you hop down to the field for an interview?”
“Right away,” promised Tim.
“Better take a cameraman.”
Tim stopped at the photo department and a photographer was assigned to accompany him.