Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morgue instead of the composing room. When the strike is over, the Times will publish a condensed edition bringing history up to date with two pages of news for each day it did not publish. The Times even had a reporter covering the strike, obligingly set up a news desk to feed stories to New York's 17 radio and 7 television stations that compete with the paper's radio station WQXR...
Here I am writing at the desk of my father's insurance office in Hannibal, as the afternoon light fades. "The Education of Henery Lamby...
...turn-of-the-century founder of Britain's popular press. (Amalgamated was founded by Northcliffe, strayed to other hands after he died in 1922.) King (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955) has the level, grey-blue eyes and careless forelock of his uncle, whose picture hangs behind his blacktopped desk. But the two men are fundamentally different: the mercurial Northcliffe had a sure instinct for mesmerizing the masses; King is an intellectual with good background (Winchester, Oxford), who had to acquire the tricks of peddling blood, bosoms and ballyhoo. Says he: "If I produced the sort of paper I really wanted...
When the news spread that Scott had deserted his columnist's typewriter for the editor's desk, staffers were flabbergasted. His witty, five-a-week "Our Town" was the Suns best-read column; his special reports from around the world (Hiroshima, Israel, South Africa) had made him one of Canada's most honored newsmen. But for twelve years he had been away from the day-to-day run of the news, working at home or out of town. Cracked one staffer: "He's often been a professional sophomore-now he needs to become a senior...
...drawer" in hope of future publication, though he periodically weeds and destroys some of his backlog. Occasionally absent-minded in conversation (he sometimes lapses into a preoccupied refrain of "da, da, da, da, da"), Pasternak is methodical in his writing habits. He first puts a watch on his desk, draws a pencil from the box he keeps there, and writes in longhand, reusing every sheet of paper (once on each side for separate works): "It's not only economical, but it's more cozy. The paper is not so fresh. It belongs to me, you might...