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Columnist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A(dams)-better known to plain citizens as the beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wit Fired | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Colyumist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A (dams), famed precisian, mentioned the matter to TIME in a telephone conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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