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...three and a half years during the late war, William Dailey, now 23, a blue-eyed, dark-haired, happy-go-lucky Irish-American, had plenty of opportunity to get acquainted with his favorite vehicle: the motorcycle. As a member of a U.S. Army reconnaissance group for a tank battalion, his job was motorcycle reconnaissance ahead of the armor. It was an all-out job with an understandably final objective. "If we came back," says Dailey, "they knew they could advance...
Obviously, Bill Dailey came back-with one wound, a .45 caliber slug in the face, suffered in training in 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...
...telephone and telegraph are generally equal to this challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
...extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would like to know, however, whether they thought he was already incapacitated or just using commendable foresight...
Yesterday's College-wide voting also elected John H. Carnahan '50 of Seagoville, Texas, and Matthews Hall, Patrick D. Dailey '50 of Dallas, Texas, and Thayer Hall, and Richard T. Guidera '50 of West-bury, New York, and Weld Hall as next year's Sophomore Class members of the Student Council...