that they shall follow each other logically in the
printed interview and shall present the thought and the real spirit of
what the man wanted to say.

=185. Identifying the One Interviewed.=--Probably the most used and the
easiest method of gaining coherence between the lead and the body of the
interview is by a paragraph of explanation regarding the person, and how
he came to give the interview. It is remarkable how many readers do not
remember or have never heard the name of the governor of New York or the
senior senator from California or the Secretary of the Navy, and it is
therefore necessary to make entirely clear the position or rank of the
person and his right to be heard and believed. In the following story,
note how the writer dwells on the rank of the Oxford University
professor as a lecturer and so inspires the reader with confidence in
his statements:

| =MODERN DRESS CALLED A JOKE= |
| |
|"Look at our modern dress. Both men's and women's |
|costumes are, on the whole, as bad as they can be." |
| |
|Prof. I. B. Stoughton Holborn of Oxford University |
|is in Chicago to deliver a series of lectures on art|
|for the University of Chicago Lecture Association. |
|In an interview Saturday afternoon he vigorously |
|ridiculed modern dress. |
| |
|Prof. Holborn is perhaps the most widely known of |
|the Oxford and Cambridge university extension |
|lecturers and has the reputation of being one of the|
|most successful art lecturers in the world. He is |
|the hero of an adventure on the sinking Lusitania. |
|He saved Avis Dolphin, a 12-year-old child who was |
|being sent to England to be educated. The two women |
|in whose charge Mrs. Dolphin had sent her daughters |
|were lost, and Prof. Holborn has adopted the |
|child.... |

=186. Handling Conversation.=--It should not be necessary to caution a
newspaper man against attempting to report all a man says. "Condense as
often as possible" is the interviewer's watchword,--"cut to the bone,"
as the reporters express it. Much of what a man says in conversation is
prolix. In that part of the interview that is dull or