 Over the next five years, under the supervision of publisher Donald E. Graham, who had taken an interest in Sager as he worked his way up from copy boy to reporter, Sager moved through the ranks from night police, to cops and courts, to night rewrite, to general assignment, most of that time under Graham's former Harvard roommate, city editor Herb Denton.Along the way, Sager would be assigned to work with newly arrived editor Walt Harrington, who asked him, upon their first meeting, "Have you ever read Tom Wolfe?