Editing Goodman Ace (section)

==Early years==
Born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], the son of Latvian Jewish immigrants Harry Aiskowitz, who worked as a [[haberdasher]], and Anna Katzen,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1803059 |title=Ace, Goodman |last=Douglas |first=George H. |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1803059 |access-date=August 22, 2022}}</ref> Ace grew up wanting to write, and as the editor of his high school newspaper, he took on his first ''nom de plume'', Asa Goodman. Ace worked as a [[roller skating]] messenger for [[Montgomery Ward]] while he studied journalism at [[Metropolitan Community College (Kansas City)|Kansas City Polytechnic Institute]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Singer|editor-first=Mark|title=Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces from The New Yorker|page=189|year=2005|publisher=Mariner Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noDkchBP1E4C&pg=PA214|isbn= 0-618-19726-5|access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref> He also wrote a weekly column called "The Dyspeptic"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7g1XAAAAIBAJ&pg=6503,4082560&dq=goodman+ace&hl=en|title=Goodman Ace, "Dyspeptic", Called Best of TV Writers|author=O'Brian, Jack|date=23 May 1958|work=Reading Eagle|access-date=21 January 2011}}</ref> for the school's newspaper. After working at the post office and a local haberdashery to support his mother and sisters after his father's death, he became a reporter and columnist for the Kansas City ''Journal-Post''.<ref name="New Yorker">{{cite book|editor-last=Singer|editor-first=Mark|title=Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces from The New Yorker|pages=188–189|year=2005|publisher=Mariner Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noDkchBP1E4C&q=perry+como&pg=PA214|isbn= 0-618-19726-5|access-date=22 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Win with a Wife!|date=30 March 1941|work=The Milwaukee Journal}}</ref>

[[Jane Ace|Jane Epstein]] was his high school sweetheart. Jane wanted to attend the sold-out performance of [[Al Jolson]] in Kansas City; her boyfriends were unable to get tickets, but Ace had access to the concert via his press pass. The Jolson concert was the couple's first date; they married six months later, in 1922.<ref name="Jane">{{cite news|title=A Couple of Aces|author=Jacobs, Mary|date=25 June 1939|work=The Milwaukee Journal}}</ref>