Charles Collins This is Me

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   Published on: 12/4/2006   Last Visited: 1/6/2008

   I like the story of the late, great reporter Charles Collins of the Boston Globe. He was drafted in World War II and assigned to Galveston Army Air Base as a clerk-typist. True, Charley could type. But at the same time, a second lieutenant was made public relations officer because he had had "public appearances before large groups of people." (He had been a trombone player in a civilian band and had played before large dance groups back in Indiana.) Charley's civilian experience and training went for naught.