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Nashua (telegraphDolly except SundaysTelegraph Publishing Co.•6 Main Street Nashua, N. H.Monday Evening, October 13, 1947A LITTLE BRAGGING *Whenever anyone tells us that the literary quality of this newspaper is not as high as it might be we can now proudly point to two alumni who have done all right for themselves in the world of books.Many years ago, shortly after the writer joined the paper, another young man was hired and his name was Chester F. Ueaves. The son of a former Hudson minister Cleaves accepted a job on the Telegraph to get experience. He never was cut out for the exacting and sometime* humdrum task of getting new*. He could write. He left us shortly after he decided that no news was going to break in a murder case that he had been assigned to, and played golf one afternoon,' By the time he got off the golf course and had returned to the office the paper, had an extra out that even caught the horde of Boston crime reporters, covering the affair, flat-footed.Mr Cleaves went to New York where he dropped the name Chester and became known as Freeman Cleaves. He caught on with one of the New York papers and served as assistant turf expert for a while. Then he dropped completely out of sight although we understand that he did serve as public relations expert for one of the opera singers who occasionally made a one night stop-over m Nashua and who had ‘cottoned up to him. Nothing was heard from him around the office until three or four years back when there arrived at this desk a copy of Old 1 ippe-canoe”, a life of William Henry Harrison. It was written by Cleaves and it was a good workmanlike job but folks either weren t interested in William Henry Harrison and his times or they didn’t like the book. Anyway the sale was disappointing. We haven t heard from him since. He had a touch of the wanderer in him and he probably is just about anyplace today except a newspaper office.Then about a half dozen years ago we hired a young man, who was then a Harvard undergraduate, and who was interested in getting newspaper experience during the summer vacation period. He was Cleveland AmoTy, son of Robert Amory of the NashuaManufacturing Company..We wish Mr Amory had decided to stay on here after graduation from Harvard. He was a good reporter. Before graduatioii he edited the Harvard Crimson and then accepted a position as Postscripts editor for the Saturday Evening Post. It was also his job to select the many cartoons used each week in that magazine.Stricken by a rare skin disease he had to quit that post and went to live in Arizona where the dry, clean air of that state^ would be beneficial. He managed to write an occasional article for the Post and worked for a while on the Arizona Star in Tucson. A few years back he returned to New England and has been living in Cambridge where between writing Post articles he has been working on a book. That book is now # published. The name is “Proper Bostonians* and it is really good even if we do say so. It gives you an idea what the young men ana women can do in this office when they set their minds to it, to brag a little.
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