Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
...Censor: "... A man with no sense of humor who is so narrow-minded he thinks in strips. He comes to his job equipped with a blue pencil and the right of way. [He] can find dirt in an infant's glance...
...even think twice about her.") Sophie makes no bones about the fact that she is no drawing-board designer, that she couldn't draw a curve to save her neck. If it comes to that, most of the other top designers are no better with a pencil than Sophie. "But," as she says, "they won't admit it. We all design in just about the same...
Along the way, Maloney sketches a few remembered glimpses of Ross at work. At the "art meeting" where the New Yorker's famed cartoons are bought, there is a pad, pencil, ashtray and knitting needle at each place-the last "for pointing at faulty details in pictures. Ross rejects pictures firmly and rapidly, perhaps one every ten seconds. 'Nah . . . nah . . . nah.' . . . Now and then Ross gets lost in the intricacies of perspective. 'Where am / supposed to be?' he will unhappily inquire. ... If nobody can say exactly where Ross is supposed to be, out the picture...
...Party Line. Sitting at his cluttered desk, scratching a dim pencil against a pad of sleazy paper, old (68), squid-faced Zaslavsky knows his own position perfectly. Like most other responsible editors on Soviet Russia's 7,000 newspapers and 360 magazines, his is a party assignment. On pain of party inquisition he is bound to it. Even before the printers get his copy, censors see it. The party line has to be remembered, and the implacable, pervasive MVD (Secret Police). Deviation is dangerous...