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...tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold on the front page...
...other nations of Asia who follow her lead into more open friendship with the Soviet system." Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey suggested that Nixon, in sounding off about Nehru in Karachi, had used "the wrong place to say the wrong thing at the wrong time." Although some State Department deskmen agreed that it was indelicate diplomacy to answer India's leader from the capital of his unfriendly neighbor, the Administration policymakers figured that Nixon had said substantially the right thing at the right time...
...most recently discovered Beethoven treasures (first published in 1912 ), this one is puckishly scored "with two eyeglasses obbligato." Scholars are still puzzling over what this notation means; Beethoven may have simply wanted to say: "Take a close look at the notes, boys, and play it right." Boston Symphony First Deskmen de Pasquale and Mayes play it so right and so resonantly that it sometimes sounds like a full quartet...
This week's issue of Life is devoted to a pictorial and documentary expose of the mysterious career of Harry Dexter White. Under the heading "50 Detectives Work on a Mystery Story," Life explains how 50 editorial detectives, "including reporters, deskmen, film editors, writers, and Time correspondents in the Washington bureau . . . worked straight through two nights to meet Life's deadline. "Pictures, too," says Life, "played a big part in unravelling the mystery...
...fast-breaking news, correspondents often telephoned London at the same time that they cabled their censored dispatches. If they strayed a single word from the censored text, the telephone line always went abruptly dead. To warn deskmen in A.P.'s London bureau, Gilmore sometimes wrote at the end of a dispatch, "Please give this a careful reading; I had to write it in a hurry," which they knew meant "The censor's been hacking at this one; watch it closely...