Billy Windsor
A tall, wiry, loose-jointed young man, with unkempt hair and the general demeanour of a caged eagle, Mr Windsor is a native of Wyoming, who comes to New York to further his career as a journalist. In Psmith, Journalist, he and Psmith become friends, and work together to improve the city.
He grew up on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and became a reporter for a tough local paper. After four years on a Kentucky daily, he made for New York, where he struggled as a freelance for a time, before taking the post of sub-editor on Cosy Moments. By the time we meet him, he is twenty-five, and has lost the lobe of one ear and gained a diagonal scar across his left shoulder. When we last see him, he is in jail for hitting a policeman, but thanks to his sterling work uncovering tenement scandals, has been offered his old job back for a hefty rise in pay.
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