"The newspaper copyreader," wrote the late New York Herald Tribune City Editor Stanley Walker, "doubtless deserves better from fate than he has received. He is completely anonymous. His job usually is monotonous. His deft touches with a pencil may raise a story out of the ordinary, but it is the handsome, much-publicized reporter who gets the credit. The copyreader sits on the rim of the horseshoe desk, does his stint, and then goes home."
Copyreader Robert Manry, 48, went home to Cleveland last week, and proved that a man who manicures the news can also make it. Back from his high...