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...jobs) in the city room of The New York Morning Star. After the last copyreader has gone home, before dawn and the scrubwomen have come, he stays there alone, writing the story of his life. You quickly get the impression that the Long Emergency Man (his name is Jim Pickett) is rather a fine person, very gentle and whimsical, very hopeless, aging, wistful. The staff regards him as a mysterious but beloved failure...
...June 3, 1864, General Grant gave the command to attack. His soldiers were led by Generals Sheridan, H. G. Wright, W. F. Smith, Burnside. The village was defended by Generals Hoke, Kershaw, Pickett, Field, Early, under General...
...arms. In a way it is that, but only incidentally. In the 600 pages of the volume (200 of which are devoted to appendices and index), the battle of Gettysburg is described in just one sentence: "The three days' fighting so well known in American history resulted, after Pickett's charge, in the defeat of the Southern army...
...trouble began when Mr. Slemp began to make exceptions to the newspapermen's rulings. One Elbert Deets Pickett, managing editor of The Clipsheet, Methodist Church paper (see page 18) applied for admission for himself or his representative to the President's press conferences...
...Correspondents' Association said " no." But Mr. Pickett applied to Secretary Slemp, who said "Yes," and Mr. Pickett's representative attended two conferences...