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Ballots & Bounces. At his polling place next day, the President of the U.S. had none of the privacy plain citizens are granted. He, Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret marked their ballots in open cubicles. Cameramen were almost peeping over his shoulder as he put a pencil to his lips and made one mark. As he dropped his vote into a box, a newsman asked him if he had voted the straight Democratic ticket. Said Democrat Truman: "I always follow my own advice . . . I'm the sort that says...
...national amateur trend. TIME'S Art Editor is inclined to think that it is, but the facts and figures to substantiate it are not yet available. At any rate, for the first time many newcomers exhibited their work in water color, tempera, oil, charcoal, and even pencil...
...consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont a present-a $2.50 pen & pencil...
...made a rule," he says, "that no editorial should be longer than a lead pencil." His brevity sometimes results in editorials so cryptic that readers dub it the "daily puzzle page." Once a politician, after reading a Wallace editorial about himself, asked a staffer: "Is he for me or against me?" The reporter couldn...
...Night Managing Editor Mason Peters, 33, a Navy veteran, was hauled up from the police beat by Mrs. Patterson. When asked how it felt to be a millionaire, he brushed it off: "Oh, I'm not interested in the money. It's my pencil-my career in the newspaper-that interests...