Note from Dick Magat
Submitted by Dick Magat, who worked from 1957 to 1983 in the Office of Reports.
The Bronx Home News, celebrated in the various obituaries of Daniel Schorr as the place of his first journalistic triumph has another claim to fame. One day in 1917. the paper ran the following banner headline on its first page: “Bronx Man Leads Russian Revolt.” It seems that Leon Trotsky lived in the Bronx for a short while, and this paper grabbed for a local angle. Unfortunately the Times obituary neglected a salient chapter in Schorr’s life—his attendance at DeWitt Clinton High School, my own alma mater by the way.