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...Mayor has not responded in kind. Suspicious of the press from the first, he nonetheless got along well enough with them for a while. Then Butch decided to abandon regular press conferences. The occupants of "Room 9" (City Hall pressroom) took that in stride and kept the copy rolling. He got mad at a reporter, tried and failed to persuade his publisher to fire him. Warier after that, Room Niners still kept up the coverage...
...Eastern affairs, 2,500 America Firsters assembled in a meeting, 2,000 New Orleans citizens who assembled outside the Japanese consulate on St. Charles Avenue, 2,500 moviegoers in the Majestic Theater in Dallas, a score of reporters outside Secretary Hull's office, 20 correspondents in the pressroom of the White House...
...noted for their high salaries, Transcript employes enjoyed the security of Civil Service employes. Once every 50 years the Transcript treated employes to a banquet. One of the co-owners, Henry D. Eustis, drove to work for years in a limousine, donned overalls to bale waste paper in the pressroom...
Director Hawks has speeded up even the dialogue by forcing his actors to speak 240 words a minute (average conversational speed - 90 words a minute). Rough est spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic. Synthetic sample: "What does he [Ralph Bellamy] look like?" Editor Burns: "Oh, he looks like that movie actor-Ralph Bellamy...
...familiar attitude of somnolence old James McReynolds heard Justice Roberts announce the Court's decision, seven-to-one for freedom of the press. Scribbling swiftly, newsmen shoved into the pressroom tubes the line: "Justice McReynolds dissents," turned back to stare at the lonely old man nodding in his huge black chair...