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When he lunches at his desk, his wife, Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam (widow of a World War II flyer, sister of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Editor-Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.), sends his food over by messenger. His easy smile, his compact, 183-Ib. frame and close-cropped, curly hair help him when he wants to be charming-and his short-fused temper is almost legendary. "Pete wants to hear a clear and specific answer, or 'Yes,' 'No,' or 'Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with...
...censored dispatch from Algiers indicated the morale of the insurgents was high...
Thayer has an old-fashioned sense of style when it comes to diplomatic correspondence. He regrets the passing of the formal dispatch, which was invariably to be addressed to "The Honorable, The Secretary of State," and started with "Sir: I have the honor to report . . ." Using these phrases, says Thayer, "the writer was at once in the proper mood of dignified respect for the recipient and at the same time filled with a sense of responsibility as the author of a state paper that one day might appear in the history books...
...news dispatch from Bombay said he had been bound and beaten by the Chinese Reds. The dispatch attributed his discovery to an Indian postman. The State Department said only that he had been seen by an Indian citizen as he was being taken, bound, into the Chinese Communist consulate
...experts expressed skepticism last night over the significance of a dispatch in yesterday's Christian Science Monitor, reporting that General de Gaulle is about to lead France out of NATO...