E. V. Durling

[1] Durling was born in Manhattan, New York City, on July 24, 1893, and moved to Brooklyn with his family at the age of seven.

He attended Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, where he played baseball and football, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

He was the Pacific Coast correspondent of the New York Morning Telegraph from 1915 to 1918, thus becoming one of the first Hollywood reporters.

In 1924 he left journalism to head the writing department of a Hollywood comedy studio.

"[3] He left the Times in November 1939 when he received an offer from King Features Syndicate to write for national distribution.