Gene Fowler's memoir of his life as a newspaperman in 1920s New York includes a Zelig-like assortment of brushes with the rich and famous. Fowler was a Westerner, new to the city, when he signed on with William R. Hearst's newspaper, which gave him access to people like Damon Runyon, Jack Dempsey, John Barrymore, and assorted journalistic stars of the era. It was a wild decade, and Fowler doesn't stint on anecdote, the most outrageous being an editor's plan to use "monkey glands" to restore an old man to vitality and trumpet the results on the front page.
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