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...still-unread portion of the Times on a tilted rack next to his breakfast tray and skimmed through it as he had his bacon & eggs. Now & then he paused to tear out a picture, a story, or a headline, or to circle a word with a red pencil. Done with breakfast and looking over the Times, solicitous Reader Sulzberger donned an expensively tailored grey suit, slipped his neatly folded clippings into his pocket, went downstairs, and in his chauffeurdriven Packard headed for the office. The office is the New York Times, where Arthur Hays Sulzberger is publisher, president and chairman...
...Voice listener will also learn a lot about how U.S. workers really live, will know that in vast parts of U.S. industry, labor and management are harmonious. Typical is the dramatized story, not without a few naive soap-operatic touches, of Joe Smith, a worker in the American Lead Pencil Co. of Hoboken, N.J. ("There are more beautiful towns in America"). Twelve years ago, things did not go so well with Joe Smith. When the union started to organize the workers, there were strikes. One night Joe and his wife Nelly exchange the following stark bit of dialogue...
...instructed all scientists and employees connected with atomic projects not to give out any information or discuss technical aspects of the hydrogen bomb even though the material is already in print. In view of this, it looked as if the press might find AEC's blue pencil busier in the future...
McCarthy sat in his Senate office wearing an air of conspiratorial secrecy. He tapped a pencil on his desk and kept the tap water running in the washbasin to foil, said he, any hidden microphones. McCarthy confided the name of the "Russian agent" to only the committee, and to a few newspapermen. Soon, every cab driver and casual Washington visitor knew that McCarthy's "top Russian agent" was Owen J. Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins' School of International Relations...
...most of the musicians and moguls around RCA Victor's Manhattan recording studios, fresh-faced Ralph Flanagan was just an essential but unexciting fixture. As an arranger for Crooner Perry Como, he was usually puttering around with a pencil making last-minute changes in the scores. Sometimes he played the piano in the band. But last week, Ralph Flanagan was being treated with new respect: almost overnight, recording with a band of his own, he had become the fastest flash seller in Victor's history...