nine o'clock
The managing editor had just come in and was at his desk in the adjoining room . One of the reporters there was pounding out something on a typewriter . Edward Norman began to write an editorial . The DAILY NEWS was an evening paper , and Norman usually completed his leading editorial before nine o'clock . He had been writing for fifteen minutes when the managing editor called out : `` Here 's this press report of yesterday 's prize fight at the Resort . It will make up three columns and a half . I suppose it all goes in ? ''