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...library was hot and full of people. All through the room, Vag could hear pages rustling and chairs creaking, and from the other side of the room, the slow rhythmic breathing of someone who had fallen asleep. Vag sat bunched over his text book with a pencil poised over a clean sheet of paper marked "Reading Notes." He concentrated: ". . . The establishment of a conditioned reflex means the establishment of a functional relation between a stimulus and a response not ordinarily associated with...
...letters marked "Postage Due" were showing up in Washington, D.C. Old cronies of John Nance Garner, 81, said that the former Vice President had taken to scribbling long-winded communications in pencil from his ranch in Uvalde, Texas, but refused to put more than a 3? stamp on any letter, no matter how much it weighed. In the interest of history and old acquaintance, the recipients were happy to pay the extra postage...
...hand that leveled an accusing finger at the S.R.L. looked as if it held a fat blue pencil of its own. Last October, the Nation had commissioned Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell to write an article on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harold C. Field, executive editor of the Nation, told Rodell he was delighted with it. But later he said that he and Freda Kirchwey, Nation editor & publisher, wanted a few changes made, notably in Rodell's criticisms of Justice Frankfurter...
Load of Briclcs. Amid persistent objections from Vincent Hallinan, Harry Bridges' brassy chief defense lawyer, Hod-carrier Schomaker (known on the waterfront as "Shoes") then proceeded to drop a full load of bricks on the pencil-nosed leader of the I.L.W.U...
...fire. Stir up the animals." Stone set Reporter Andrew Tully to prowling the corridors of the State Department, assigned Oland D. Russell, his Far Eastern expert, to dig up other angles, briefed Editorial Writer Parker La Moore on the campaign ahead. Cartoonist Harold Talburt sharpened his Pulitzer-Prizewinning pencil...