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...spite of such seeming offhandedness, the Congressional Record is in a sense a publishing wonder. It is a daily of more than 200 pages, with an average circulation of 42,000, no managing editor, and in the members of Congress, 537 contributors, all free to edit their own copy Printed overnight at a cost of about $16,000 per issue, it is delivered all over Washington earlier than the morning milk. Though the Record has never missed its midnight deadline, only a system as intricately interrelated as a Swiss watch keeps it functioning...
...reporters and typists work so fast that a Representative or a Senator can have a copy of his remarks within half an hour after he has stopped talking. Each member of both congressional branches has the opportunity to edit what he has said before it goes to the printers. This practice was scored by the late Senator Richard Neuberger (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), who introduced a resolution to prevent substantive changes in the recording of remarks made on the Senate floor. Senators, he said, are among the "few persons who can say 'I wish I'd said that...
...pencil, Truman accepted, but first he visited the Democratic-angled afternoon News, where he sat at the telegraph editor's desk and did little but doodle and smile for a News photographer. Then he adjourned to the Herald's city room. Asked if he would like to edit the paper, Truman backed off with a grin: "That's your job, not mine." He had passed up his big chance, but he advised Knight and all his men: "The more we print about what Republicans are doing the better...
Love built his empire on a shoestring. Son of a Harvard math professor, he studied economics at Harvard ('17), helped to edit the Crimson. In World War I, as an infantry major in France, he won a citation for meritorious service. With $3,000 in Army savings, 23-year-old Spence Love went to his father's home town of Gastonia, N.C., persuaded local residents to put up another $80,000 to buy control of a clangorous old cotton mill. When cottons sagged and real estate surged in 1923, Love sold the plant for $200,000 but kept...
...Edited Disk. Tough, trenchant and tenacious, Arsenio Lacson reminds many Americans of Manhattan's rambunctious Fiorello La Guardia, who also served three terms. Like La Guardia, Lacson cleaned up a corrupt administration and a wide-open city; he fired 600 incompetent job holders. Night after night, Lacson patrols Manila in a black police car, returns from time to time to a corner table at the Bay View or Filipinas hotels, where he listens to complaints and requests, or talks profusely on a plugged-in telephone, punctuating his conversations with shots of whisky and four-letter expletives. Sunday nights, Lacson...