Word: looseleaf
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...copy gets beaten out on the portable typewriter, gets trimmed by the censor with his little looseleaf notebook of directives, gets whisked to the cable office, flicks undersea in dits and dots. And the cable editor fights it out with the city editor in the city room, where the phones keep ringing and the rewrite men step into the booths to take the stuff from the stringers in the corner drugstores, and the presses are booming downstairs on the early edition, and cigaret smoke hazes above the grey men with the eyeshades in the slot. And the photograph forms itself...
Just as many a corporation executive has on his desk a looseleaf book in which are the latest statistics and charts of sales by product and region, of profits, of raw materials, etc., etc., so Mr. Hurja has at his elbow a compendious black volume. He can quickly turn through it to any state or subdivision. If he opens it on the 16th Congressional District of Illinois, he finds a salmon-pink chart indicating that the Congressman there is a Republican. If he were a Democrat the sheet would be white. Under the Congressman's name are the returns...