- St. Clair McKelway
St. Clair McKelway (
February 13 ,1905 -January 10 ,1980 ) was a writer and editor for "The New Yorker " magazine beginning in 1933. He was brought up in Washington D.C., and began his journalistic career as an office boy at theWashington Herald . While working at theNew York Herald Tribune , he was described by Stanley Walker as, "One of the twelve best reporters in New York." He served as a managing editor for journalistic contributions at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1939, after which he was a staff writer [cite web
title = New York Public Library, New Yorker Records
url = http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/NYhtml/nyserdesc.htm
accessdate = 2008-01-19 ] . DuringWorld War II , he held public relations posts for the Army Air Force, leaving the service with the rank of Lt. Colonel.In 1950, a selection of his "New Yorker" pieces was collected in the book "True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality". One article from that collection was the basis for the 1950 movie "
Mister 880 ", starringEdmund Gwenn as a small-time counterfeiter of one dollar bills, who eluded theUnited States Secret Service for ten years, from 1938 to 1948 [cite web
title = IMDB listing for St. Clair McKelway
url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/
accessdate = 2008-01-19 ] . St. Clair McKelway also wrote screenplays for two other movies in 1948, and published the book "The Edinburgh Caper: A One-Man International Plot" in 1962.References
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