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...arrived. Under rules set by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty to prevent any leak before the conference ended, the Secret Service men frisked some women's large handbags for signaling devices. As an extra precaution, while the conference was on, they emptied the telephone booths in the corridor outside the room; legmen assigned to hold telephones had to wait outside the booths...
...White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some, like Harold Greer of the Toronto Star, ran four long blocks to the National Press Building to file their stories...
...bailiff one morning last week, the jampacked courtroom in Birmingham's Federal Building fell silent, stood as Judge H. Hobart Grooms, lanky veteran of more than a quarter century of practice as a Birmingham lawyer, took his place. Beyond the closed courtroom doors, in the corridor, latecomers waited patiently, hoping for a chance at seats...
...head of the builders estimated from blue prints that each floor of No. 10-12 will house 23--in three single rooms, four doubles and four triples. One corridor will stretch the whole length of the buildings, with three or four washrooms opening off it, Trottenberg said...
...glances at the flags fluttering from 15 tall flagpoles at the entrance, and trots briskly up the steps. He flashes a wide, toothy grin of greeting at the military policeman on duty, to the civilian woman who runs the magazine stand, to anyone he encounters in the corridor on his way to his office. His working day had begun almost an hour earlier, when his French aide reported to his breakfast table in his nearby official residence to brief him on the day's news in the French press (Gruenther had already whipped through the Paris edition...