10 Facts About Bob Considine

Bob Considine is best known as the co-author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Babe Ruth Story.

Bob Considine launched his journalism career on his own initiative.

Bob Considine later wrote drama reviews and Sunday feature articles.

Bob Considine was known to work at two typewriters at one time, writing a news story on one and a column or book on the other.

Bob Considine was often taken to task for biased reporting, such as a 1946 article about then US President Harry S Truman.

Bob Considine continued to work for Hearst while writing his books and adapting some of them into screenplays.

Bob Considine was undaunted by the pace of his schedule.

Bob Considine had correspondence from Truman, Lyndon B Johnson, Rube Goldberg, Nelson A Rockefeller, Cardinal Francis Spellman, and General William C Westmoreland.

Bob Considine is interred in a crypt at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

Bob Considine's papers are held by the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University.