A composite picture of a reporter by a man who was ""leg-man"" for the Star Times and Globe-Democrat in St. Louis, episodic, somewhat reminiscent of the style and manner of Max Miller's early books. Here are professional and personal anecdotes, yarns of the morgue, of fires, of sudden death; interviews; city editors, proof readers, photographers; a baby contest winner; personal events in his own life, all told without glamour, with sympathy and incisiveness.