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...offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...
...Helicopter or Jeep. With what could be described only as calm exuberance, the West put the enemy's words under its microscopes, examined every phrase, studied every comma. The enemy had, as anticipated, come back with his own meeting place-probably to demonstrate that he was also in a position to call part of the tune. But that did not alarm the West. Kaesong was venerable to the Koreans and had, centuries ago, been their capital. Now a ruin in a shell of aged city walls, it stood in a no man's land between U.N. and Communist...
Another trouble, said Ferguson, "is that [the columnist] begins to believe, after he has 20 or 150 editors . . . that he is endowed with prophetic powers* ... If [an editor] throws him out ... or so much as changes a comma, the columnist immediately denounces him as trampling on the freedom of the press...
...team is just as good comma...
frank erickson once said comma...