Word: errand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accustomed to women reporters, says Ruth, but "I remember once, on a farm-implement story, when my source seemed a little baffled to see a girl on a plowman's errand." However, after the story appeared there came a nice note from the baffled source...
Canopus is the second brightest star in the heavens. Last week the Stratocruiser Canopus roared out of the sky onto Washington's National Airport, and out popped Sir Winston Churchill, arriving on an errand which shed only enough light to call attention to the encircling gloom...
...figure in every TIME news bureau is that highly efficient and knowledgeable girl who works under the unassuming title of secretary to the bureau chief. She is an expert in many things, from taking shorthand to running an Teletype machine. She is office manager, file clerk and general errand girl with wide contacts in the city and intimate knowledge of the files full of research. One of these indispensable staff members is Ann Stephanie Squires, secretary to TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Jeff Wylie. Ann came to TIME in 1945 with wide political and newspaper contacts acquired as secretary...
...errand boys was Harry Woodring, onetime (1936-40) Secretary of War. Woodring once (1948-49) went to Europe on a Grunewald mission to line up supplies of scarce metals. Grunewald collected $10,000 for the project, paid the former Secretary of War $2,500. ¶ Every year Grunewald spent about $900 giving $7.50 ties to friends. The ties were cut from a special bolt of cloth reserved for his "Christmas Tie-Out Club" by Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club...
...four-year-old Michael, left him dead and horribly mutilated. He left quietly and went to his brother Alphonse's house, penned his mother and two small nephews into one little room, and then, swinging madly, hacked them all to death too. The brother was away on an errand; when he walked into the quiet kitchen, Peter sprang at him with his bloody weapon, killed him, and went out to the street again...