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...York's Queens County Court, Judge Charles Golden recessed proceedings to halt a distracting grating noise coming from under the counsel table. The noise proved to be a house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe. Newshawk William Alexander, of the Long Island Daily Press, had been so busy he hadn't noticed. Judge Golden had the mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness...
...Last week Wall Street Journal Newshawk George Bryant good-naturedly asked Mr. Morgenthau, "What would you do if you were ever caught by yourself?" The Secretary good-naturedly acknowledged that he didn't know...
...given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went off in a small spray of words like "staggering . . . stupendous . . . unrivaled since the dawn of creation." Carefully he added: "I am in some doubt whether the half has been told...
...expected expenditures by cutting unnecessary though popular expenditures was only lightly explored at budget-time and has since been forgotten. Most agencies of the Government had done their best to conceal the existence of such expenditures. This year practically every expense, for whatever purpose, is labeled "for defense." Wrote Newshawk Smith wisely: "Cupidity is the handmaiden of national defense, or vice versa...
...kept in touch with many young writers whose work he patiently encouraged. Though they were separated by a continent in space, almost as far in time, he kept in touch with his daughter, who also writes. At twelve she had told a newshawk that Father knew only old-fashioned things like the jazz age. Last year Scottie read The Beautiful and Damned, wrote her father that she could never be such a good writer. There is nothing lost about daughter Scottie. If anything, she is old for her years...