Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewd Evita Peron knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
...Senator can afford. Caught between trains in Indianapolis, he explained: "I'm on my way to punish an audience with a speech." Meanwhile, in Washington, grandchildren Alben II, 4, and Dorothy Anne, 6, took advantage of grandpa's absence to check over his old Senate desk, and made a few marginal notes on his copy of the Congressional Record...
...when Cissy sallies into Manhattan each year to forage for her annual purchases (up to $250,000 worth) of artistic merchandise (Rubinstein, Heifetz, et al.), New York managers jovially call to their secretaries to lock up the safe. Recently, when a drunk fell through a window almost onto her desk, she surveyed him calmly, then told him: "You're the only person to get into my theater free in 20 years." Says Cissy: "I'm no Lily Pons, but I bet I have just as good a time...
...chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
Conversion of Widener to a private haven for graduate students has made rapid strides in the last week with the shifting of the reference department into what was the main reading room, and the establishment of the reference desk at the former reserve book desk...