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Three more members spoke; all favored Dev. "Seventy-two and one-seventy-three-seventy-four," counted the girl, as her pencil hovered over the page. "He's in!" she cried at last...
...Blue-Penciling. At first, Senators were irked at Marshall's frequent recourse to lengthy off-the-record confidences. But gradually they seemed to realize that they were being told just about everything; by week's end they were so stuffed with hot information that some of their own questions had to be censored. "We are entering doors that have been barred, we are unlocking secrets that have been protected in steel safes," said Chairman Russell. "I have lain awake at night. Even the public record has carried some material which strikes me as dangerous." The censor...
...National Production Authority last week put pencils on its defense priority list. Under the new Controlled Materials Plan (TIME, April 23), pencil manufacturers will now get enough copper to make the brass they need to fasten erasers to pencil tops. Exulted Eagle Pencil Co.'s Sales Manager David E. Price: "It's taken the years since the war to convince the Government that nothing starts without pencils...
When the Sheen story came in over the wire last week, Editor John G. Green of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Times (circ. 25,176) did as suggested; he took out his pencil and went through his previous day's paper. In the 1,430 inches of news, headlines and pictures, he found only 149 inches devoted to crime or violence. Even this included stories (e.g., the Korean war, the Kefauver investigation) which Editor Green thought "might be considered by many readers as being moral, rather than immoral." In the non-crime news, he counted stories about penicillin, a union convention...
...from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...