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...sudden break sent market analysts rushing for paper & pencil to explain what had happened. A few pundits saw great significance in the fact that one wave of selling swamped the market minutes after the ticker had flashed the news that the U.S. First Army was across the Rhine. Their inference: good war news was bad news for speculators in war industries...
...sort of father confessor, valued as much for the counsel he can give as for the stories he can write. He avoids press conferences (except King's) because he usually knows what is going to be said and is already busy writing it up. He writes in pencil in a barely legible scrawl, and in an unvaryingly matter-of-fact, elliptical style. Of his adeptness in drawing out important people, a Cabinet minister once observed: "You know, Charlie just talks about the weather and unimportant things, then slips his real question in, and he's got the story...
...second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy") to the latest blessed event in the Indian colony. Occasionally...
Avid followers of "The Indian News" are sometimes disappointed when Charlie's dispatch is limited to "Not much news this week. Indian report in jail." But their fidelity is rewarded when, under the spell of a hangover, Charlie dips his blunt pencil into vitriol to discuss the Indian and the white man. Sample: "Indian scalp his enemy, but now the white people, he skin his friends. That he called Business...
...blue pencil, not a pen, helped do it: a third of the play has been hacked...