In his delightful memoir, Louis Rubin takes us back to the days when Coca-Colas were called "dopes" and the newspaper business was still a young man's best entree to the world of letters. Rubin brings to life the newsroom of the 1940s and 1950s and makes real the seductive lures of the low-paying but exciting work of the reporter. And ultimately, this consummate man of words discloses why he left the career he had pursued since the age of ten, when...