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aycox
came to the University of Oregon in 1920, where he majored in journalism,
wrote for the Oregon Daily Emerald, the yearbook, and the campus
humor magazine, Lemon Punch. He studied short story writing under
W.F.G. Thacher, and repeatedly submitted tales to national magazines.
One year he cleaned out a shack behind his fraternity house and spent
his nights there writingwith three of the hut's walls papered
with rejection slips. In 1922 he placed his first paying story for $30.
By graduation in 1923, he had sold six or seven more. "You know, it's
not exactly a natural pursuit, a man putting himself in front of a typewritera
machineday after day," he said in 1945. "But you've got to spend
three or four years digging yourself a rut so deep that finally you
find it more convenient not to get out of it."
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