An editor s problem is: How do you keep the story fresh and alive?

Jimmy, with Molly's story fresh in his mind, could not check a rapid smile.

He needed a fresh new story for today.

And, with Hubert's lurid story still fresh in his mind, he felt reluctant to start talking about them now.

But of fresh stories and rumors there had been many in the past two decades.

For the nervous 15-year-old, it became a harrowing experience that, at 49, he still recounts as a fresh story.

As a former columnist, he is attuned to the needs of print journalists for a fresh story.

Eager for a fresh story, the papers said the Beatles were finished.

"How do you tell a fresh story," he asks, "when the structure is set?"