Hubbell, John G.

Graduating from a top tier School off Journalism in 1949, John Hubbell promptly turned down a "good" job as a reporter for a good newspaper in a "nice" town, took a job as a billing clerk that "paid me so well that I sometimes had to hitchhike to or from work and get lunch out of vending machines," and looked for a chance to work his way into the world of major league magazine journalism. "That," he explains, "was where the glory and the money was, just as today it's in TV journalism." Soon enough he found himself sitting in the office of DeWitt Wallace, the legendary founding Editor-in Chief