Word: desk
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...piece written by my grandfather, the late Samuel Ullman of Birmingham, Ala. (a public school there bears his name) . . . Twenty years after my grandfather's death, a journalist interviewing MacArthur at his Tokyo head quarters in late 1945 was struck by a framed poem over his desk. It was called Youth, and was apparently anonymous. The general said this poem had been sent to him years before, and had always occupied the position over his desk, wherever that desk was located - even throughout the campaign in the Pacific . . . I believe I echo the feeling of the 14 grandchildren...
Within three years he was city editor. A year later, hating his desk job, he went back to reporting, started his column in 1921. Soon he became known as a friend of the down-and-out. Hoboes tapped him for "coffee money" so often that Post staffers put a sign next to his desk proclaiming Segal "King of Vagabonds." (His penchant for giving away his money finally got to the point where his wife put in a rationing plan-just enough for carfare, lunch and two daily glasses of sherry.) Between columns he covered news stories, and the friends that...
...wishes about cremation in advance. Home Affairs Minister Louis J. M. Beel pleaded: "A codicil is a simple note ... 'I want my body to be burned,' date, signature, nothing more . . . One can carry it in his pocket or his wallet, one can put it in his desk. One can entrust it to his relatives or his cremation association . . . What's simpler than making a codicil...
From a Teletype within the United Nations' slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the Security Council of the U.N. respectfully invites Red China to participate in a debate of ways and means to stop the shooting and avert a full-scale war over the question of Formosa. R.S.V.P...
...witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...