Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 5 · column 2 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
plant’s paper in Radford, Va. for a few months. Platt moved to Washington, D.C. in August of 1942 to work as an information specialist for the Office of Defense Transportation.
“It was a time when every newsman in the country was trying to get to war-time Washington,” Platt said. In a little over a year, though, Platt left Washington and the country when he entered the Marines as a Marine combat correspondent. He served in the Pacific until the tropical climate caused him to receive a medical discharge in August of 1945.
After his discharge, he found his last job when he was hired by U.S. News & World Report. “I just came back to Washington and applied for a job,” Platt said. “I had good fortune since I applied just when everything was opening up and there were still millions of guys overseas.”
Platt said that at the time publications were prevented from expanding due to the lack of paper during the war. “U.S: News knew that it was on the point of expanding so it took on four to five writers in one month, and I was one of them,” Platt said.
Platt started by writing general assignments on a wide variety of topics with an emphasis on business and finance. “I went back to school nights studying economics and finance, and I finished most of the work for a Ph. D. although I never did the thesis work necessary,” Platt said.
All of the studying paid off when Platt was named senior finance editor. Platt remained in that post until his re
95.9%