Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 24 cover was beautifully done and quite symbolic. It recalls for many of us here Bernard Lorjou's The Dying Bull, [see cut]. The original painting hangs directly opposite the desk of our senior partner, who finds it an ever-present reminder that no "sacred cows" or immortal bulls roam Wall Street. As Baron Rothschild put it: "Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon...
...Republican congressional leaders had barely drawn their chairs up to the President's desk for their weekly White House legislative conference last week when Dwight Eisenhower issued a warning. The warning: go slow on bills designed to cure the recession with heavy spending; the Democrats are trying to spend too much too soon. Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects...
...President Nasser: "You have to take Gunther seriously, because he tells both sides." Inside Europe landed in Churchill's library (and so firmly in Hitler's bad book that Gunther was marked for postwar liquidation by the Nazis). Inside Asia was on Harry Truman's desk when he broadcast his V-J day speech. Inside Africa was studied dutifully by Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, who cited it in a United Nations tirade against British colonialism, and by Richard Nixon, whose party was weighted with copies of the book on his 1957 visit to Africa...
...updated after Zhukov's ouster (though Gunther had foreseen Bulganin's eclipse). Near press time he had to turn out a new, unexpected foreword: "The Sputniks and the Future." In the last feverish months, he spent up to 14 hours a day at his desk, catnapping occasionally on a grey day bed in his office...
...like Godfrey's dance, the changes promised more than they delivered. The star left off his familiar earphones, strolled around the studio instead of staying behind his old desk. But Godfrey remained Godfrey: still spouting whatever came into his redhead ("He came down with the crud"), still blinking at the audience like a dyspeptic owl, still relying on eager young entertainers as his guests. As he dipped for contestants' postcards into a huge revolving drum, he made no secret of his disgust with his new giveaway "crap game" ("This is the silliest thing"), grudgingly granted wishes of winners...