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Last week, to the vexation of Cordell Hull, the U. S. legman in France, hottest news spot in the world last week, was sending no news whatever: he was practically incommunicado...
...Though Legman Archie Goodwin is on hand, Wolfe this time actually goes out of his house. Murders and flowers...
...James's Beat. An Ambassador is a glorified reporter, a legman in a tailcoat. His main job is to interview people, get news, report accurately. To do this he must 1) have the confidence of the people he represents, 2) win the confidence of the people he is assigned...
Never a P-D legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
During the greatest crises of the revolutionary government, it was always Stalin upon whom Lenin depended for support and counsel Trotsky was his legman at the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, but it is interesting to note two telegrams which Lenin sent in answer to Trotsky's request for instructions. On Feb. 15, 1918, he wired, "Reply to Trotsky. I must first consult Stalin lefore replying to his question." And on Feb. 18, "Stalin has just arrived. We will examine the situation together and send you a joint reply as soon as possible. Lenin...