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...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...
...Death on the Aveneu de Segur" Antoine Blondin takes the reader on a priest's errand of mercy through a small apartment house. As the priest goes from floor to floor, in search of a dying woman known only by the name of Morderet, Blondin presents a series of sharp character sketches: the retired general whose "majestic wife knits him regulation ear-muffs," the hunchback who practices the samba with a chair held in his arms, the robbers who once burglarized an apartment ("they carried down the garbage when they left, it was right on their way, after...
...that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife? She had better die!" That same night, a Moslem and another high-caste Hindu called on the same errand, got the same offer, gave the same retort. Next morning, Ida heard the tom-toms beat the death march for three Indian women who had died in labor. Did she belong in India, after all? She prayed for guidance...