Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the White House Cabinet Room last week, the President of the U.S. ran spang up against a sight that made him wince. Around the room were stretched easeled posters on which the progress or lack of progress of his 1957 legislative program had been dutifully drawn in grease pencil. The pencil marks were hardly encouraging; Dwight Eisenhower's associates got the impression of a man hurt and angry...
...surprised reporters followed Hagerty to the President's office for Ike's first such unscheduled news conference.* They found President Eisenhower waiting behind his desk, a drawer half open to support a stack of note cards scrawled on in heavy black grease pencil...
...Announced Max Chester: "I am going to unionize your shop." Testified fearful Paul Claude last week: "He wanted $2,000 to give me a contract that I can live with. I said, 'I haven't got $2,000.' He figured out with pencil and paper that a contract I couldn't live with would cost me $12,000. I could save myself $10,000, and I should be very grateful, he told me, that he is giving...
...blows. It was old stuff to the men in the city room; no one paid much attention. When the early printed Sunday magazine came off the press, Chief Photographer Ed Pierce looked at the map and, musing about his vacation, closed his eyes and stabbed with a pencil. There was his spot: West Virginia. Then Photographer Pierce discovered that he had, indeed, made a stab in the dark. On the News map, West Virginia was where Kentucky should...
Alerted by Pierce's pencil, the editors found that their map had somehow lost its bearings entirely. Missouri was where Arkansas should be; West Virginia was labeled Maryland; New Jersey displaced Delaware; Costa Rica had swallowed up Panama. A staff artist had slapped the map together with little care and editors had approved it with less attention. The News was faced with a problem that haunts many an editor: a serious error in an early run section...