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...unruffled and competent reporter stands on the deck, at the airport, at the Secretary's elbow, with his pencil working on the wad of copy paper, his sharp eye on the crowd, on the building about to fall, on the halfback faking and spinning. The good correspondent goes overside with the troops, crawls up the ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there...
...happy-go-lucky Socialist deputy who edits La Vanguardia goes laughing away from Chamber sessions to a small dark office in Socialist Party headquarters, swivels before a chaotic desk, attends to the business of paper and party, talks to his friends, licks his pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers...
...picture desk, Dimmy found the next day's picture page being laid out. He asked for a red pencil, studied pictures briefly through his thick-lensed glasses, shortly came up with a layout that went into the paper. In the art room he did not like the way pictures were being retouched. He had the white paint taken off, then showed the artists how he wanted the job done. At the copy desk he looked at a few heads, then gave his first flat order: no more heads starting with verbs, like INDICT 16 MILLS ON FLOUR PRICES...
Chicago Tax Shark. Star of the performance was Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...
...figured their messman pay, their court-martial fines, their SKMC, AOD, S and FSD, and many other alphabetical sins and virtues. (Who ever said the New Deal started the alphabet on its way to fame? We think the Navy rates the distinction!). We've bitten off many a pencil point over Kirby's flight pay and Hancock's advance pay and Cadaret's promotion pay. We know them so well by now that we're going to miss them, even though we expect to feel more at ease on land...