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...Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken staff artist. Where Arpad's name originally came from no one knows for sure. A town mentioned in the Bible has the name Arpad. So has a Hungarian national hero...
With the aid of a spick-&-span new automatic press and four assistants (two are Army men who work part time), pipe-smoking, cap-wearing Horace Moore is doing the best he can. But gone are the five-day weeks and the life of Riley. Whitehorse's frosty, ink-stained paradise has been invaded...
...goods and services too. Since then he has poured $20,000,000 back into new equipment, has located over 300 new industries to ship via M. & St. L., and has diversified its freight load over the seasons, so that its accountants no longer automatically reach for the red ink seven months out of every twelve...
...lead out of the pants of the zombie who did the work)-that the only paper available would be usable if not ideal-that we would somehow manage to get him enough gelatin for the press roll ers-and that we would not complain too bitterly if his inferior ink smudged some of the illustrations...
...details jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...