Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction and in movies, if not always in fact, a good reporter can outsmart a dozen cops. Last week Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 160,271) made fiction into fact. To the Call's city desk came word that a 17-year-old girl had been found beaten to death in a clump of bushes in San Francisco's Mission Park. The staff hopped on the story and Reporter Bill Walsh soon turned up the names of the girl's boy friends...
This is the quotation the President keeps on his desk: "Always do right. This will gratify some people, & astonish the rest. Truly yours. Mark Twain." In addition to the Golden Rule, to which he refers constantly, this seems to be the conscious basis of his policy...
...desk, miserably struggling over my income-tax form when I could ill afford to spare the time from the work whence comes my income, I looked up, not at the ceiling as you suggest, but at your March 10 cover article on the U.S. taxpayer. I quickly sensed an expression of sympathy from you . . . Your commiseration is superb . . Congratulations on the masterpiece of writing that makes income-tax time something to feel almost gay about...
...after his lightning army coup (TIME, March 17), Strong Man Fulgencio Batista moved last week from his Camp Columbia headquarters to the presidential palace in downtown Havana. His white linen suit soaked with sweat, his voice hoarse with fatigue, the "Chief of the Revolution" sat at his old presidential desk for the first time in seven years, greeting job seekers, delegations of sugar planters, union leaders and the press. Tired as he was, he grinned a big victor's smile...
...question was purely rhetorical. Pia knew just what to do. She went to the desk where her husband had checked his pistol. Then she faced Sacchi, took aim and fired. "It sounded just like the popping of another cork," remembers one of the bystanders. A moment later, Pia aimed the gun at her own temple and pulled the trigger once again. But the gun misfired. "It won't shoot," screamed...