Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

He said that his life’s ambition was to live in that manor but it was very clear at the closing that they had no intention of living in it. Mansion
Swope died in 1958 at his home known as Land's End on Hoffstot Lane at Prospect Point Sands Point New York.

Swope was called the greatest reporter of his time by Lord Northcliffe of the London Daily Mail. Herbert Bayard Swope Sr. Swope spent most of his career at the New York World newspaper.