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...Kentucky, and a confirmed belief that nothing quite equalled the satisfaction of riding and caring for your own motorcycle. About a year ago he turned up at TIME with his machine, a recommendation from the Associated Press, and a conviction that it was time we hired a motorcycle courier. Our editors, recalling the days when copy boys disappeared for hours on their way to trains and planes with editorial copy and pictures, were skeptical. Dailey talked himself into a job, however, and the editors have been thankful ever since...
...Knight writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...secretarial staff tried to cut down the presidential load by sifting and digesting the documents flown in daily by courier plane from Washington. But the burdens of the presidency could be lightened only partially. Harry Truman, who rises at 5:30, was sometimes at his desk until midnight...
...Commission failed to name names, except in obvious or innocuous cases of the misuse of freedom. He would note many a contradiction (e.g., in its preoccupation with the evils of monopoly, the Commission overlooked such cities as Boston, where eight competing papers give poorer fare than Louisville, whose Courier-Journal and Times are a monopoly...
Last week in Camden, whose strikebound Courier and Post await a buyer, the Guild started a daily of its own. The 3? Camden Free Press, printed 30 miles away in Wilmington, started out with a 30,000 press run, plenty of ads, a non-salaried staff, a Guild shop...