Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mabel Caines Joell is a mighty mammal. Every day the breasts of this vast, friendly colored woman produce a quart of milk for her own thriving infant and more than another quart for Manhattan's Mothers' Milk Bureau...
Meanwhile, our London bureau had gone to work on its end of the story at Lever Bros. world headquarters there; our correspondent in South Africa was investigating the firm's activities there; and Chicago was checking details of Luckman's former activities there. At that point we were dismayed to learn that the deadline for announcing Luckman's new job had been advanced a week. That would make us late with the news. We sat tight while Luckman chased Geoffrey Heyworth, Lever Bros. board chairman, around England by transatlantic telephone, relaxed when it was decided...
...correspondent who makes the New York Times proud of its foreign-news coverage. Seasoned by a decade of wars (in Ethiopia, Loyalist Spain, Italy, India, France), he holds a top job on the biggest staff (55 men) that any U.S. newspaper maintains abroad. His bosses know their London bureau head as a deadly serious, high-strung reporter who makes his share of wrong guesses, but strives to make sense for tomorrow's historians as well as today's cable editors...
...switched to the news department. A reluctant journalist, who still has a tendency to be ponderous and pontifical, he spent much of the next ten years longing to get back to his books (Dante, medieval history). Even when he became second man in the Times's Paris bureau, he writes ruefully, he stuck to his ivory tower, picked up no political knowledge that he could avoid, shut his eyes to the drama of his own century...
...Robert Ogden '45, assistant graduate secretary of PBH, who welcomed his audience and presented Richard A. Waite, Jr., Assistant Dean of the College and graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House. Dean Waite added further words of greeting and explained some of the functions of the College social service bureau...