Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: My brother-in-law, Myron E. Brink, sent this letter written in lead pencil to be typed and sent to you. Mr. Brink was President of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce. . . . "After being starved, robbed, and kicked around for three years, we were rescued yesterday from the Los Banos Internment Camp. Yesterday we were to have eaten banana stalks. That was all and the Japs said there would be no more food. "About sunrise our planes came over, dropped paratroops and engaged our guards. The guerrillas also attacked, and during the fighting our tanks drove in through our prison...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...
Censorship Director Byron Price, whose hand on the blue pencil has usually been both light and wise, used a slightly heavier hand last week. He asked editors to go easy on discussing "expectations or probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post, which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe...
...sudden break sent market analysts rushing for paper & pencil to explain what had happened. A few pundits saw great significance in the fact that one wave of selling swamped the market minutes after the ticker had flashed the news that the U.S. First Army was across the Rhine. Their inference: good war news was bad news for speculators in war industries...
...sort of father confessor, valued as much for the counsel he can give as for the stories he can write. He avoids press conferences (except King's) because he usually knows what is going to be said and is already busy writing it up. He writes in pencil in a barely legible scrawl, and in an unvaryingly matter-of-fact, elliptical style. Of his adeptness in drawing out important people, a Cabinet minister once observed: "You know, Charlie just talks about the weather and unimportant things, then slips his real question in, and he's got the story...