Days of Fortune

I write this piece in memory of the happiest job I ever had. and I have had many. I was a researcher on Fortune magazine, which had been founded by Henry I uce a year or two before I went to work there, in the mid-Thirties. I got the job in an interesting way.

I was a young student at the London School of Economics, earning my keep at various writing and other jobs. The Nazis were then beginning to consolidate their power, and 1 went to Berlin to report for the Yorkshire Post on their rise. The American and English journalists used to meet at a bistro called the Taverne H. R. Knickerbocker. Edgar Ansel Mowrer. and all the luminaries of the time, including Roger Sessions, the composer.

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Nika Hazelton

I write this piece in memory of the happiest job I ever had. and I have had many. I was a researcher on Fortune magazine, which had been founded by Henry I uce a year or two before I went to work there, in the mid-Thirties. I got the job in an interesting way.

I was a young student at the London School of Economics, earning my keep at various writing and other jobs. The Nazis were then beginning to consolidate their power, and 1 went to Berlin to report for the Yorkshire Post on their rise. The American and English journalists used to meet at a bistro called the Taverne H. R. Knickerbocker. Edgar Ansel Mowrer. and all the luminaries of the time, including Roger Sessions, the composer.