Terry "Bluedog" McElroy
Bluedog came from a poor dust farm in rural
Mississippi. He helped pick cotton until the arrival
of the boll weevil forced all the local farmers to
switch crops. Dust farming was lucrative, however,
and Bluedog opened a co-op where the dust crop was
processed into kitty litter. Bluedog soon rose as a
local power in mid-Mississippi and bought a local
paper, The Dust Bunny. Here his editorial style
quickly captured the attention of the jounalistic
titans of the day, and he was soon on his way to
Californ-eye-ay to work for William Randolph Hearst.
Bluedog exposed the soft underbelly of Hollywood in
the 1930s through his in-depth writing. Over the
years, his honest approach made him too many enemies
in the corrupt Hollywood studios, however, and he
was forced to leave town when his marriage to Ava
Gardner went sour.
Bluedog wandered the country in the 1940s and his
friendship with Jack Kerouac led some to believe
that Kerouac’s bestselling On The Road was based
on him. Through it all, Bluedog’s articles
continued to appear in all the best magazines,
and he was hailed as Time’s Man of the Year in
1956.
Today, Bluedog’s writing is known to millions the
world over. He counts many of the world’s leaders
as his personal friends, and he was considered for
the premiership of Russia recently upon Boris
Yeltsin’s retirement. Recently, appearing at the
Vatican on New Years Eve, people in the St. Peters
Square crowd were heard to ask: “Hey, who’s that
guy with the white hat up there with Bluedog?”
We here at SBN are pleased as punch to have a
journalist of Bluedog’s stature on the staff.
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