Word: drawerfuls
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...like Producer Spivak, onetime (1944-1950) editor & publisher of the American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...
...long ago you consigned TIME'S Art writer to an office on the Northwest corner of the TIME & LIFE Building. This was his punishment for pigeonholing Charlie Russell, the Montana cowboy artist, to the Southwestern drawer of the U.S. [TIME Letters...
...look at as a Christmas tree. But under the tree, precious few gifts are displayed. Often, while the eye feasts on Lemuel Ayers sets and costumes, the mind wanders and the spirits slump. The decor aside, nothing in Out of This World is even remotely out of the top drawer...
...newspaper business for three years, on small Midwestern papers and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the University of Missouri set up its new journalism school, Charlie Ross went back to teach, stayed at it for nine years before he went back to the P-D and a top-drawer job as head of its new Washington bureau...
...retained his sense of humor. The other day, he opened a letter on his desk and said: "The season isn't long enough. We won't have a chance to use all the plays the alumni have sent in." He filed the sheet of diagrams in a drawer...