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This book is being published while I am a staff member of The Toronto Star. It is a purely personal one, off my own bat, unofficial. It relates, in brief, the performance and reaction of a single cog in the human mechanism of the newspaper—who had no responsibility except the relatively carefree one of turning out news and magazine articles.

Any one of a number of colleagues might have written such a book in his own terms. Like most newspapermen they no doubt feel that nothing is more dead than yesterday’s news. I like to think of to-day as merely heir of all the yesterdays. Hence this record which has no moral otherwise.

One thing I must say clearly. I owe The Star much—of opportunity, outlet, realization. Nowhere else in Canada, certainly on no other newspaper, could I have had the experience, the quickened living, the freshness of interest, the fun.

FREDERICK GRIFFIN.

Toronto, July 1, 1936.