Bob Considine

Robert Bernard Considine, known as Bob Considine (November 4, 1906 – September 25, 1975), was an American journalist, author, and commentator. He is best known as the co-author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Babe Ruth Story. 2Biography As a student, Considine attended Gonzaga College High School and George Washington University, both in his hometown of Washington, D.C.. He worked as a government employee there as well. He launched his career as a journalist by his own initiative. In 1930, he purportedly went to the editors of the now defunct The Washington Herald to complain when they misspelled his name in a report about an amateur tennis tournament in which he had participated. He was hired as the newspaper's tennis reporter. He later wrote drama reviews and Sunday feature articles. The newspaper was one in a syndicate of major-market daily newspapers owned by media magnate William Randolph Hearst. As such, Considine could and would use this fact to his advantag