Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office boy's job with the Detroit Free Press, worked his way onto the news staff and became a first-rate police reporter. But life's seamy side was not for Edgar Guest; he asked for a change of assignment and was moved to the exchange desk-where a steady flow of incoming verse inspired him to try a hand himself. By 1916 he was rhyming his own column seven days a week, and he kept it up for 43 years...
Across Dr. Heller's desk, from his far-flung research fields, flow curious and varied intelligence items-students gathering puffball mushrooms, desert rats that have learned to smoke, a drug made from a chemical relative of DDT, a plastic "iron lung'' for mice. To him, they all fit tiny corners of the vast jigsaw that must be filled in before cancer can be conquered. Meanwhile, his reports on the enemy's inroads are grim...
Clear Record. In Phoenix, Ariz., Representative David Hill Campbell had a sign on his desk in the Arizona state legislature: "Don't ask me for any information. If I knew anything, I would not be here...
Word sifted from the State Department that Career Diplomat Charles E. T. ("Chip") Bohlen, 54, longtime (1950-57) Russian-speaking U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and since then Ambassador to the Philippines, may soon go back to Washington, become top adviser of State's brand-new Soviet-affairs desk...
...tennis. But most of his time is spent in his office on the third floor of a converted hospital across from Washington's Corcoran Art Gallery, where he logs twelve hours a day. He works standing up, telephone to his ear, or prowls back and forth between his desk and work table. His friends insist that he tries to do too much himself, but General Quesada sees no help...