Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prodding List." Jack Kennedy pursued his job with zest and frenetic impatience. Once, Special Assistant Kenny O'Donnell returned to his office to find the President reading a stack of O'Donnell's mail. "What have you done about this?" Kennedy asked, flourishing a letter. Replied O'Donnell: "I haven't read...
Each morning the President arrived at his West Wing office carrying an armload of newspaper clippings and memoranda written in his hasty scrawl. One morning, staffers found him in the mail room, opening letters himself and writing instructions across them. In his eagerness to get things done, Kennedy has developed a "prodding list" of matters that he feels he must pursue, has learned, as all Presidents do, that he sometimes has to ask three times to get things done. On his telephone, the President has installed a console of pushbuttons, enabling him to bypass secretaries and instantly reach the inner...
...Esmond Cecil Harmsworth,* Lord Rothermere, whose Associated Newspapers Ltd. publishes the Daily Mail, the Evening News, the Sunday Dispatch, the blatantly sensational Daily Sketch and a string of provincial newspapers. Combined circulation...
...working for what is essentially a serviceman's newspaper. But such moods pass. Married to a Canadian-Nisei whom he met at a party, tooling around Tokyo in his crimson MG, demolishing a movie or some visiting star, reading with great pleasure the latest stack of scurrilous mail, Al Ricketts has everything he wants. Says he: "I'm doing a job I love in a town I love...
...judges own procedure was as informal as that of the committee, according to Kaufmann. "When the award is finally made in May" it represents a meeting of the minds of all three judges. But it does happen that they sometimes do all their meeting by mail. We prefer it if they get together." Being a aDna Reed Prize judge is, it seems, a far from unnerving experience. The novelist Jean Stafford, a judge in 1954--the year that produced the award's most notable recipient, John Updike '55--declared recently that "I had more pleasure reading for this than almost...