Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Summer School administrators are running away from anything, and they're not all nomads at heart, either. It just seems that desk space in the Yard is rather tight, so that the various summer offices are as scattered as losing parimutuel tickets at Suffolk Downs...
Amid all his other problems, Charlie Wilson chose last week to surpass himself in the art of getting into needless trouble over an essentially trivial matter. From the Defense Secretary's office came an order requiring military officers with Washington desk jobs to wear civilian clothes to work. Ignoring officers' complaints that they would have to spend substantial sums of their own money for such clothes, Wilson airily explained to newsmen: "We don't think at the seat of Government it is a good thing to put on the military...
...bellowed, in his gravel baritone. "I had 69 votes!" The bill before the house was one of the governor's favorites, and it had just gone down to defeat. Even as Earl bellowed, his floor leaders took their cue; member after member rushed to the speaker's desk to proclaim his vote miscounted...
...Does the city desk know where to reach you at all times?" New York Post Editor James Wechsler asked nervously, as he sent his Reporter Ted Poston, a Negro, to Montgomery, Ala. for a series on the plight of the Negro there. But, as Poston's series made plain in the Post last week, there was no cause for alarm. Reporter Poston, 49, who was roughed up while covering the Scottsboro case in 1933, explored the city of the 6½-month-old Negro bus boycott for three weeks and found no danger, little tension-and plenty of help...
Advertiser Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. welcomed Poston to choose his own desk in the city room, opened the paper's files to him, set up appointments, offered him a staff photographer, and assigned City Editor Joe Azbell to act as guide and chauffeur. Poston hit it off so well with the staff that he told them a story on himself. He had instructions, he said, to phone Editor Wechsler every day with assurance that he had come to no harm. Poston added that he had got lost on Montgomery streets one night, and two white children...