Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulletin board: "Short leads and short sentences. No lead [opening paragraph] is to be more than three typewritten lines, two if possible." Chicago would get frequent samples of Knight's own "personal journalism": punchy editorials in short, snappy sentences. Knight writes a weekly "Publisher's Notebook" for all his papers...
...Executive. As an administrator, General Lee is at his most terrific. His chief of staff, Brigadier General Royal B. Lord, takes care of many details, but Lee keeps up with current facts by a small, brown leather loose-leaf notebook-which a major on his staff is in turn assigned to keep up to date...
...Calif.) wanted to name one of their tankers after Mt. Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...
...stickler for keeping news columns factual and unbiased, Publisher Knight describes himself as "a passionate believer in personal journalism," lives up to it by writing a signed "Editor's Notebook" on his editorial pages. His sentences are short and punchy. His aim: to be independent but not neutral-"not to be a straddler of issues, a do-nothing...
...strange fish. He gave his opinions briefly, spontaneously (some Justices took six months). When lawyers complained, Holmes roared: "May God twist my tripes if I string out the obvious for the delectation of fools!" As soon as an attorney began to speak, Holmes whipped out his pocket notebook, took notes. Eagerly he would await what he called the point of contact: "the formula-the place where the boy got his finger pinched in the machinery." Sometimes he caught onto it in the first five minutes, would promptly doze...