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...before the deadline, the tremendous stack of bills the vacation-bound 81st Congress had piled before him. It even looked as though he would be able to revive some reluctantly mothballed plans for windmilling personally into the 1950 congressional elections. His lieutenants, who had expected to find the President deskbound by Korean worries, worked up an itinerary of radio and television speeches and probably some on-the-spot exhortations on behalf of shaky Democratic contenders wherever they...
...most moviegoers-and to some deskbound newsmen-it sometimes seems that the globetrotting, glamorized foreign correspondent has all the fun. But in the current Atlantic Monthly, Paul Scott Mowrer, longtime foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prizewinner and onetime editor of the Chicago Daily News, gives a more realistic account of the lonely, often frustrating, sometimes wildly exasperating life of a correspondent...
Over the centuries, students have always regarded earnest study with deep displeasure. The deskbound undergraduate has been variously damned as a swot, a brown-bagger or a mug. Chemistry is still stinks, Thucydides is Thicksides, and studying education is doing Eddyoo. To be failed in an examination has traveled from being gravelled (after Marlowe's Faustus, who "gravelled the pastors of the German church") to being gulphed, ftoor&d, knocked out, pilled, pipped, ploughed or plucked...
Listen, TIME, there's enough cheap talk being thrown around without having you encourage more of it by printing it for a laugh. Your July 3 issue introduced the no-nonsense girl, Pfc. Eunice Shepard, who saluted the "deskbound male Marines" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with the icy remark: "I joined the Marines to free a man to fight. Who's leaving...
Three hundred, the invading wedge, sailed into the Navy Department's rambling buildings in December 1942 to release deskbound sailormen for more active missions. Since then officers and enlisted personnel of the WAVES have been arriving in blue-clad droves, sometimes at the rate of 1,000 a month, while blue-clad men have been shoving off for sea or overseas duty...