Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephens was also impressed by the high regard in which TIME'S correspondents are held in most Latin American capitals. Once, when he was with Chilean Correspondent Mario Planet, who was buying stamps at a hotel desk, the clerk pointed to Planet and told Stephens: "Here is the best reporter in Santiago...
Cott sold the show to its first sponsor by dumping a sack of unopened mail on a desk and offering odds that there wouldn't be a single uncomplimentary letter in the lot. Since then, Music has averaged five sponsors a night (ranging from Victor records to Dormin, a sleeping pill). Despite Cott's boast, there have been critical letters aplenty. Almost all of them say, in effect, that the trouble with the show is that music lovers can't bring themselves to turn the radio...
...around New York studying such wonders as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street and the Woolworth Building. While still working for McKim, Mead & White, he got himself enrolled in the atelier of a top architect, Harvey Wiley Corbett, where in the evenings he drew, drew and redrew, while Corbett passed from desk to desk, criticizing and encouraging...
Premier Antoine Pinay, a resolutely ordinary Frenchman, likes to think of France as a large-scale model of Saint-Chamond (pop. 15,000), his industrious little home town (its chief product: shoelaces) near Lyons. As often as he can, Pinay locks his desk in the Hotel Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling...
Donald D. Janson, copy desk editor, Milwaukee Journal. He was graduated at the University of Missouri in 1943. He plans to study American history and politics...