ways accompanied by a word or two telling who he is and why he was
interviewed. Furthermore the reporter himself has no more place in the
lead than if he were reporting a speech--his existence and the part he
played in getting the interview are strictly ignored.

=2. Summary Beginning.=--There are two common ways of beginning an
interview story with a summary. First, the lead may begin with a
_that_-clause which embodies the gist of the interview; this is like the
_that_-clause beginning of the report of a speech; thus:

| That the apparent apathy among the |
|voters of the country is merely |
|contentment with the present |
|administration of affairs by the |
|Republican party is the contention of |
|ex-Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska. |
|Mr. Thurston was at Republican national |
|headquarters today, etc.--_New York |
|Evening Post._ |

Secondly the summary beginning is used in the case of an interview that
is a denial or an assertion by the man interviewed. The lead begins with
a clause or a participial phrase embodying the substance of the
interview, and the name of the speaker is made the subject of a verb of
denying or asserting; thus:

| Declaring that his office is run as |
|economically as possible, Sheriff H. E. |
|Franke denied on Sunday that he had |
|expended more than $688 for auto hire to |
|collect $1,409.28 of alleged taxes. |
| |
| (The second paragraph begins with a |
|direct quotation.)--_Milwaukee Sentinel._|
| Although he had sharply criticised |
|Roosevelt's special message condemning |
|some of the uses to which the possessors |
|of large fortunes are putting their |
|wealth, President Jacob Gould Schurman, |
|Cornell University, declined to discuss |
|Roosevelt or his policies in Milwaukee |
|yesterday. He said that he was not |
|talking politics. |
| |
| (The rest of the report is a quotation |
|of hi