Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WRITER'S NOTEBOOK (367 pp.)-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
...back he went, meticulously making the notes which were a guide to him through all the legal labyrinths of the trial and which, before he was through, filled a two-inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge to the jury and then catch the lawyers for the defense flat-footed by sentencing them on the very next day. Said he afterward: "They didn't think I'd have the time to prepare the charges against them...
...kept a voluminous notebook, jotted down things for which he yearned. Among them: Oregon mountain meadow preserves, Edam cheese, a drink made with rum mixed with gunpowder from a .22 short cartridge. He also filled pages with snatches of his philosophy on women and life in general...
Among Bernays' recommendations (which fill a fat notebook): a manual for producers with pooled know-how on the most economical production techniques; standardized financing and accounting; an industry clinic in promotion and advertising; training courses in behavior for box office personnel, ushers, concessionaires and house managers; a credo pledging the theater to fair dealing, courtesy, comfort, efficient operation-with enforcement of ethical practices by the Better Business Bureau. Bernays would also harness women's clubs, youth groups, universities, cultural leaders, etc. into a vast public relations campaign for the theater...
...office building or even in the open car (with the radio up high) no student could throttle his biases. If it is at all possible to study these new questions reasonably, then this University community is the place. Away from the picketlines and with the headlines tucked inside a notebook, perhaps we shall be able to unscramble some of the questions raised this summer, when the heat...