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...time Riesel hung up the telephone, his assistants, Miriam Goldfine and Dulcie Ponon, had arrived. Dulcie clipped and read to Riesel portions of the news coming in on the U.P.I, ticker; she also read selectively from the other New York morning papers, including the Wall Street Journal...
...Miriam Goldnne consulted the office background file. All this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report ... I want exact figures on the Sun Valley land deal." It took him one hour and 3^ triple-spaced typewritten pages, each full page breaking neatly with a finished paragraph...
...that lasted until 11:30. A voracious reader when he had his sight, Riesel is now an inexhaustible listener ("I've got listening down to a science"). He has kept hired readers working for as long as 15 hours at a stretch. Frequently, to save time, he makes Miriam and Dulcie read simultaneously from separate documents...
...MIRIAM MAKEBA New York City...
...Freely translated, the descriptive word or two in Miriam Makeba's name say: "There is a saying that after dinner, the Xosa kick the dishes...