Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, Lederer recalls, liked the book "and asked me if I knew what the British had done in Malaya. I said that I did, but that it would take me a few minutes to write it down. He took me to his office and sat me at his desk with a pen and paper...
...Tonis voluntarily retired from active law enforcement to sit behind a desk in the complex of sparsely furnished offices and whitened brick hallways under Grays Hall. "I guess I enjoy being in an academic atmosphere", says Tonis only half in jest. He graduated from Dartmouth and B.U. Law School before joining the F.B.I...
...years," Tonis recalls. "They thought they were going to die. But it worked out great." Tonis saw to it that all men learned the same basic skills, and the rotation included the 13 officers on the force (one captain, two lieutenants, and ten sergeants) who also take periodic desk assignments at Grays Hall and the other branch headquarters...
...example, Cohn once bawled out his staff for creating an anachronism in an Arabian Nights fantasy. "It's all through this script, goddammit!" he complained. "You've got 'em all saying 'Yes, siree.' " The producer read the offending page on Cohn's desk. "But, Harry," he explained, "that's 'Yes, sire...
King's edicts were defied. He was surrounded by jesters, many of them devastating. Once, at the climax of a dressing down, an alcoholic actor, Warren Hymer, urinated on Cohn's immaculate desk. Hymer was banished from Columbia. The desk was burned...