In 1930, he purportedly complained to the editors of the now defunct Washington Herald when they misspelled his name in a report about an amateur tennis tournament in which he had participated.

[8] "Bob Considine is no great writer, but he is the Hearstling who regularly gets there first with the most words on almost any subject", wrote Time magazine in an unsigned profile.

[2] With Ted W. Lawson, Considine authored Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, an account of Lt. Col. James Doolittle's 1942 air raid on Japan that was released the following year.

His colleagues at the Washington Post recalled that he wrote a column on the 1942 World Series in nine minutes--on a train with his typewriter on a baggage car and the conductor shouting, 'All aboard'", according to the Dictionary of American Biography.

[9] In 1955, Considine was a panelist on the television game show Who Said That?, hosted on American Broadcasting Company by John Charles Daly, where celebrities attempt to identify the speaker of a quotation from recent news.

"I was talking to Harry Bridges about a miserable anti-union article by a Hearst columnist named Bob Considine", remembered journalist Sidney Roger in a series of interviews.

"Ghostwriter Considine dashes off his fast-moving autobiographies while their heroes still rate Page One, takes one-third of the 'author's' royalties as his cut.

[2] With the creation of United Press International in 1958, Considine remained on the Hearst payroll, but his work was syndicated through the wire service.

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

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a 1960 letter to William Randolph Hearst Jr., praised Considine's reporting on the 1960 U-2 incident in which the Soviets downed an American aircraft piloted by Francis Gary Powers and used for intelligence gathering.

"Writing this note gives me also an opportunity to express my satisfaction over the balanced and reasonable way the Hearst papers handled the recent U-2 incident and the 'Summit' meeting.