1 Cool Job of 1966

Hendrik Hertzberg writes about the six months he spent working for Newsweek as a San Francisco-bureau cub reporter in 1966. It’s a nice story, full of special old-timey details (telex machine!). He left because of the draft. (“How great was the job? Ridiculously great”).

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