I'll tell you quite reliably off the record,
About some charming people I have known.
For I meet politicians and grafters by the score,
Killers plain and fancy, it's really quite a bore.
Oh, a newspaperman meets such interesting people,
He wallows in corruption, crime and gore."
As the Chicago Trib explained, "He went from studying journalism in Harvard classrooms to hoboing across the country singing folk songs to anyone who wanted to hear them." He felt that the real stories of America were not found in City Halls and Congress but among people who worked for a living and struggled for change.
When he was questioned by the House Committee on Un American Activities, he talked about his original career goal:
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