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Bill Grant was a famous American newspaper editor. He worked for the same newspaper from 1926 through 1968. He 51 as a clerk but by 1948 he had become the editor, 52 was the position he held until he retired.

Bill wrote his first story for the newspaper 53 the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929. Two of the newspaper’s writers 54 thirty miles away from town 55 into an airplane crash and the other was in San Francisco investigating Chinatown. When the 56 of the stock market crash came into the office Bill immediately sat down and write up the story. The editor liked it so much that he used the story 57 making any change in it. After that the editor decided that Bill should be a writer, not a 58.

After this first story Bill became especially interested in financial news, though he wrote stories on just about everything. In 1945 he 59 five months in Europe and wrote stories about the end of World War II.

One of Bill’s greatest moments came in 1946. A story he had written about the war 60 the National Newspaperman’s Award. Bill took the prize but gave all the credit to his editor.