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...young editors, ten-year-old Tommy Piper of Lock Haven (Pa.), reported the gist of it all in terse journalese: "The President . . . told about why he had come from Florida. The reason was very simple. He had come to talk to us so we would grow up to be good men like...
...just because one small part of it is attributed to a man whose name need not be used. When a newspaper gets an "off-the-record" interview, it either uses the material without giving the interviewee's name or runs nothing; it certainly does not write a story and lock it away in a safe...
...field, in the Home Office or in one of the Service's special schools in Slavic, Middle Eastern or Oriental languages, the third secretary gets his diplomatic education. He also learns that his hat should be a black Homburg or a bowler from Lock, his tie subdued, his shoes black. It helps to have a rich wife. For the guidance of young Third Secretary John Bull and his wife, an official in the Foreign Office service four years ago wrote a confidential manual of procedure. It was distributed, but hastily withdrawn. Sample advice...
...none of them sleeps there. The only residents are Stevenson and one of his executive assistants, William McCormick Blair, wealthy Republican and cousin of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On the nights when Bill Blair goes to a movie, it is up to the governor to lock up and turn out the lights-which he does, before climbing to the lonely grandeur of his bedroom...
...nation's biggest plywood producer.* But it owned little timberland, thus was afraid of being caught in a price squeeze in purchasing its raw material. This week Georgia-Pacific's Cheatham found a neat solution to the problems of both companies. He bought out the Johnson company lock, stock & barrel stave for $16.8 million...