Nora Ephron tells the story of when she first fell in love with journalism.
Her journalism teacher, Mr. Simms, asked the class to write the lead for an article using these facts:
“Kenneth L. Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. Among the speakers will be anthropologist Margaret Mead, college president Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, and California governor Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown.”
