Lewis of Lenox

If banker or merchant had lent $20,000 to Lenox, Mass, (pop.: 2,895) in its hour of need last week, few persons far from that fashionable little summer resort would have heard about it. But because the lender was a plain newspaper reporter, member of a traditionally underpaid and improvident profession, he became news everywhere. He was Walter Everett Lewis, 64, for 25 years Lenox correspondent of the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle.

Stout, bald, genial Newshawk Lewis is known throughout Berkshire Country. He keeps no working hours, wants no diversion other than traveling about, gathering homely little items for his paper, chatting about his favorite oldtime news stories. Unmarried, Reporter Lewis lives alone in a lodging house. That, says he, is how he amassed $20,000: "I'm thrifty, and you can live in Lenox for $4 a week.''

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