Word: bookman
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This bit of pastoral reporting marked a considerable change of pace for a TIME correspondent whose stories usually originate from places such as Washington's Federal Reserve Building, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The author of the paragraph is George Bookman, business and economics reporter in TIME'S Washington office, who recently covered one of the capital's most pleasant news assignments: Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas' 178-mile hike along the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...
...story began with a good-natured disagreement between the Washington Post, which thought a parkway along the canal was a good idea, and Justice Douglas, who thought otherwise and suggested that a hike along the route might prove his point (TIME, March 29). Reporter Bookman was one of 37 white-collar workers, nature lovers and reporters who joined Justice Douglas on his venture. There were no invitations -anyone was welcome to tag along. Bookman got his walking orders on a Thursday morning. When the teletypewriter began rattling out the week's news queries from New York, one query asked...
...plan was for the hikers to take a train to the canal terminus in Cumberland, Md. and walk from there to Washington, D.C. Two days and 43 miles after they left Cumberland, Bookman and fellow walkers arrived at the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, where they were to spend the night and where a TIME courier was waiting to take Bookman's copy to the nearest telegraph office. This done, Bookman relaxed and followed a home-remedy suggestion to ease aching muscles: he drank a tumbler of heavy saltwater solution. The next night, by the time he had bedded down...
Back in Washington (without a single blister). Bookman decided that this particular assignment had been one of the most pleasant interludes in his reporting career. Said he: "Sitting around a campfire spooning beef stew from a bubbling cauldron and singing songs in the firelight was one of the best soul-restorers an economics reporter could possibly find...
Such aggressive salesmanship, if applied everywhere, should have a stimulating effect on the economy.' "Which car would Weeks buy and when? Reported Bookman: "Like any canny sales prospect, Sinclair Weeks so far has just smiled and kept his own counsel...