Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the desk of Lee Nichols, a night rewrite man for the United Press in Washington, passed the terse Pentagon announcements and the brief press dispatches that were the communiques in the war against armed-forces segregation -the Unknown War, as Nichols came to know it. Nichols became fascinated in the subject, and his interest led to previously secret files, to military bases, to scores of interviews. His book, Breakthrough on the Color Front (Random House; $3.50), published this week, is the most complete report to date on a war already in the mop-up stage...
...President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from the night before. At 7:30 he showers and dresses, usually in grey gabardine or white linen, a silk tie with a gold clasp, grey suede shoes. Soon he is sitting at a cluttered desk in a smallish office conspicuously free of ornament...
...complying with the rules. To Chicagoans generally, the case highlighted a painfully familiar problem: the red tape that a patient must fight through to get into a hospital bed. Said one Chicago woman: "You rush to the hospital to have your baby and they keep you standing at the desk while they ask you your life's history. After all that, they inquire, 'Are you in labor...
...displayed there to best advantage. The figure of a slim, slightly graying man, with an engaging smile, nervous gesture, and rapid-fire delivery is becoming increasingly well-known. In his office, however, Owen is far removed from the elevated atmosphere of the auditorium. Besieged with phone calls, his desk piled high with papers, the Chairman of the History Department "is just trying to hang on through the winter...
Meet Millie's Elena Verdugo once in a great while carries a piece of paper from her desk to a filing cabinet, but, with that chore over, she takes it easy by necking with the boss's son (Ross Ford). My Friend Irma's Marie Wilson is portrayed as a bosomy sub-cretin who spends her office hours listening ecstatically while the recorded voice of a telephone operator recites the time...