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Robert Bernard Considine was born on November 4, 1906 in Washington, D. C. , United States. He was the son of James Considine, a tinsmith, and Sophie Small.
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Robert Bernard Considine was born on November 4, 1906 in Washington, D. C. , United States. He was the son of James Considine, a tinsmith, and Sophie Small.
He attended Gonzaga High School, but did not graduate.
He went on to work as a messenger for the Census Bureau and then the Bureau of Public Health. Later he became a typist in the Treasury Department and, in 1927, a clerk in the Department of State. During these years he took evening courses in journalism and short-story writing at George Washington University in order to pursue a career as a writer. It was through an early enthusiasm for tennis that Considine began his career as a newspaperman. When in 1927 his name was misspelled in the Washington Herald's account of a tennis match, he went to the sports editor to complain and was hired to contribute occasional tennis articles. In 1929 he began to write a weekly tennis column for the Washington Post. Four years later Considine joined the Washington Herald, where he was sports editor briefly before being discharged and told to "stick to writing. "
During the mid-1930's he covered the Washington Senators baseball team for the Herald, wrote some editorials, and did a series of daily short stories on government clerks entitled "Uncle Sam's Children. " In 1933 Considine started what was to become a well-known sports column, "On the Line. " In 1937 William Randolph Hearst hired Considine to work for the American, but later that year he was transferred to another Hearst newspaper, the New York Daily Mirror. At that time, International News Service (INS), a Hearst syndicate, took over half of Considine's contract and distributed his column nationally. "On the Line" often appeared in the American in the space formerly occupied by a column written by Damon Runyon, who had been transferred to another position. Considine believed that the placement of "On the Line" in Runyon's spot got his column "off to a start" in New York. Soon he was assigned to cover stories other than sporting events, including the trial in 1938 of New York politician James J. Hines, who had allegedly sabotaged and intimidated members of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. By 1942 Considine was writing exclusively for INS.
During World War II, Considine was assigned to England, where he reported on the preparations for the Normandy invasion and on the activities of the Eighth Air Force. He also covered the North Africa campaign and after V-E Day was assigned to the China-Burma-India theater. In later years, Considine reported on both the Korean and Vietnam wars. During the postwar years, Considine covered many important domestic and international events. He accompanied Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon on their international travels, including Nixon's historic trips to China and the Soviet Union. Among Considine's other notable assignments were the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the trial of Jack Ruby, the death and funeral of Pope Pius XII, and the Bikini Island hydrogen bomb tests.
During World War II, he coauthored with Ted W. Lawson the best-selling book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1943), an account of Lt. Col. James Doolittle's 1942 air raid on Japan. He also wrote a wartime biography of General Douglas MacArthur, MacArthur the Magnificent (1942). Considine's writing interests ranged from sports (The Babe Ruth Story, 1948), written with Babe Ruth; to crime (The Men Who Robbed Brink's, 1961); to fire insurance (Man Against Fire, 1955); to anti-Communism (The Red Plot Against America, 1949), written with Robert E. Stripling. In 1967 he wrote his autobiography, It's All News to Me. Considine also found time to produce a number of screenplays, which were made into Hollywood films. Among the most successful were Ladies Day (1942), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), The Beginning of the End (1947), The Babe Ruth Story (1948), and Hoodlum Empire (1952).
Considine was also active in radio and television broadcasting, beginning as the Washington Post's first nightly newscaster in 1932. For many years he did a fifteen-minute widely syndicated weekly radio show for NBC, "On the Line with Bob Considine. " He was also a regular participant on the television news show "America After Dark. "
Considine's speed, accuracy, and concentration as a writer and his seemingly inexhaustible energy were legendary in the newspaper profession. He was known to work at two typewriters at one time, writing a news story on one and a column or book on the other. His colleagues at the Washington Post recalled that he wrote a column on the 1942 World Series in nine minutes--on a train with his typewriter on a baggage car and the conductor shouting, "All aboard. "
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Quotations: "I'll croak in the newspaper business. Is there any better way to go?"
On July 21, 1931, Considine married Mildred Anderson; they had four children.