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 He once told me that he 'qualified as the first yellow journalist.' I wish to God he had remained the first and only one."

That was before Mr. Bell negotiated for the sale of "The Times" to Lord Northcliffe.

William Heinemann, the late famous London publisher, who could never get hold of any of Mark Twain's books for publication:

"An author as well beloved as he is popular and famous. Wit, scholar, orator, millionaire perhaps" (that was before the Webster period), "yet I have seen a letter of his in which he stated point blank: 'I would rather be a pilot than anything else in the world,' and that letter was penned after two hundred thousand copies of 'Innocents Abroad' had been sold." 195