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...telegram was delivered to President Eisenhower just as he holed out on the 435-yd. first hole at the Newport Country Club. The President read it slowly. Press Secretary James Hagerty scratched an answer in pencil on the back of the telegram, handed it to the President. Ike changed a word or two, initialed the bottom: "DDE." The historic confrontation was arranged between the President of the U.S. and a governor of Arkansas who had wrought a lot more than he could handle...
...into the White House Cabinet Room last week, the President of the U.S. ran spang up against a sight that made him wince. Around the room were stretched easeled posters on which the progress or lack of progress of his 1957 legislative program had been dutifully drawn in grease pencil. The pencil marks were hardly encouraging; Dwight Eisenhower's associates got the impression of a man hurt and angry...
...surprised reporters followed Hagerty to the President's office for Ike's first such unscheduled news conference.* They found President Eisenhower waiting behind his desk, a drawer half open to support a stack of note cards scrawled on in heavy black grease pencil...
...blows. It was old stuff to the men in the city room; no one paid much attention. When the early printed Sunday magazine came off the press, Chief Photographer Ed Pierce looked at the map and, musing about his vacation, closed his eyes and stabbed with a pencil. There was his spot: West Virginia. Then Photographer Pierce discovered that he had, indeed, made a stab in the dark. On the News map, West Virginia was where Kentucky should...
Alerted by Pierce's pencil, the editors found that their map had somehow lost its bearings entirely. Missouri was where Arkansas should be; West Virginia was labeled Maryland; New Jersey displaced Delaware; Costa Rica had swallowed up Panama. A staff artist had slapped the map together with little care and editors had approved it with less attention. The News was faced with a problem that haunts many an editor: a serious error in an early run section...