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...Work had begun on it 18 months ago, when the white-haired economist was appointed by the then Minister of Reconstruction, Arthur Green wood, to "survey . . . existing national schemes of social insurance and allied services . . . and to make recommendations." Sir William had written the bulk of his report in longhand. Now it was before the public, and the public was eating...
Good, grey Cordell Hull had worked over his speech with the patience of a thorough man. He had dictated it to a battery of secretaries, revised and corrected it in his laborious, Victorian longhand. Now, sitting at his desk before twelve microphones, he carefully took his hornrimmed pince-nez from the breast pocket of his grey suit, carefully shook out the anchoring length of black ribbon, carefully spoke to the world about World...
Highly enjoyable to hefty, bespectacled William Connor was the national hubbub about his broadcast. In his office at the Mirror he continued to turn out vitriolic screeds in longhand, taking time out occasionally to blow a few toots on his mouth organ, an inspirational aid. Said he last week...
...Wigmore did not retire when he became Dean Emeritus, but moved his office to the first floor of the Law School, near the front entrance, where he would be easier to get at. Every Wednesday and Saturday for at least 30 years he has spent at home, scrawling in longhand with an ordinary old-fashioned...
...tall, lean, sad-eyed man sat at his desk last week in his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo near Rome. Before him was the text of a 13,000-word document which he had written and re-written three times in longhand. Pope Pius XII made some final corrections, sent the document off to the Vatican printers. It was his first encyclical, long delayed by the seismic events of World War II. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics waited to hear it as the keynote of the Holy Father's reign. Two days later the encyclical, entitled, from...