I had a guarantee of only $10 per week as my take home pay when I started my journalist career, but following the _Titanic_ disaster, my minimum was raised to $45 per week plus whatever I could make at space rates above that sum. In those days many of us were paid in that manner. During my first two years as a cub reporter, I often sat around for ten hours with little to do other than a few rewrite stories and frequently finished a week with $15 or less in my pay envelope. The raise I received elated me. It was the biggest money I had earned as a reporter. It wasn’t long, however, before I became Sunday editor of the Automobile section and Scholastic sports editor in addition to writing feature articles and covering general sports events. When _The Press_ was merged with the _Morning Sun_ and Jim Price resigned as sports editor, Frank A. Munsey, the new owner, appointed Joe Millard to take charge, with me as his assistant. Millard had been covering racing and was a heavy drinker, and he didn’t last long. I took his place within a few months after the merger. I served under Mr. Munsey on every paper which he purchased in New York. I was his sports editor on the _Sun Press_, _The Morning Herald_, _The Morning Sun_, _The Mail-Telegram_ and _The Evening Telegram_. As Sports Editor I gathered around me a staff of experts that made _The Telegram_ outstanding for its sports coverage. In addition to Underwood, Mathison, and Lieb, I had Dan Daniel, Francis Albertanti, Peter Bernaugh, Hughey Mulhare, Harry King, Nan O’Reilly, Howard Valentine, Al Copeland, and James K. McGuinness—experts every one of them, each capable of reporting any branch of sports. For thirteen years I was Frank A. Munsey’s top man in the sports department. Every time he junked a newspaper by amalgamating it with another, he placed me in charge. The break came in 1929 when the Scripps-Howard interests bought the New York _Telegram_. I had been in Europe on a two-month feature assignment on the reconstruction era in Central Europe following the war and knew nothing of the loss of my position, until I was informed by ship news reporters at Sandy Hook upon my arrival home. Roy Howard ousted me to make way for Joe Williams, a Cleveland sports writer from the Scripps-Howard organization. I pondered for several weeks over my future and finally decided that I would devote all my time to _The Ring Magazine_ which I had organized in 1922. I also continued as American correspondent for several British and French newspapers, posts I still retain. [Illustration: 4] AN INTERVIEW WITH ROOSEVELT