Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretary. "She has," says Wylie, "an uncanny ear for quotes, which I envy. She keeps accounts, brews coffee, gets impossible reservations for unexpected delegations, struggles with appointments, pictures and air-express pickups. She doesn't have the fun that we reporters do chasing news. She sits at the desk when we are in an remote corner of Maine or some other place and all the editors in New York are suddenly demanding immediate action of other projects. By quick thinking and an superb telephone manner, she manages to tie all the loose ends together." Ann's knowledge...
Died. Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, 66, Harvard anthropologist and author (Apes, Men and Morons) who, from his skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...
Witness to Murder (Chester Erskine; United Artists) might be called a desk sergeant's holiday. Barbara Stanwyck dials the police in the middle of the night to say that she just saw a woman strangled in an apartment across the street. But when Detective Gary Merrill reaches the scene of the supposed crime, there is nobody there but George Sanders, and he looks like a man who never strangled anything more than a friendly impulse...
...Army's special counsel for the investigation, speaks with a honeyed fluency and a meaningful grin that hints of legal cunning. Iowa-born Welch, a Boston lawyer, when in his Boston office, does most of his work standing at a high, old-fashioned clerk's desk...
...lost the ability to support a cause he believes in, and does so in characteristically strong language. To his long list of writings, most of which have been translated into other languages, he has added several new volumes on altruism. Pointing proudly to a bulky, orange book on his desk, he remarked, "They are even writing books about my books...