Word: deskman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing and Restlessness. Ernie Pyle's first newspaper job was on the La Porte, Ind. Herald, whence he went in 1923 to the Washington Daily News (Scripps-Howard) as a reporter, later became a deskman. By 1932, after a brief fling at Manhattan news rooms, he had become the Washington Daily News's managing editor. Unhappy, in 1935 he asked for a roving assignment...
Headlined the New York Times: "Is Red Paper's Face Red!" Said a Daily Worker deskman: "It was a typographical error. . . . This sort of thing happens sometimes. You see, the boys down in the composing room get to throwing the word 'Communist' around...