Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Before he could even start, Larry had to sell $400,000 worth of stock in a doorbell-pushing junket. This gave him enough cash to rent a plant, buy pencil, paper and drafting board for Larry's pet designer, chunky, modest Robert James Woods, an ex-Consolidated man known to his pals as Mr. Five-by-Five...
...remainder of the program will be discussed as fully as possible next week. Meantime grab your calendar and mark the week starting February 25 with a red pencil. Duke is returning to the Keith Boston then...