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...Rewriteman Wanted...
...more bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken staff artist. Where Arpad's name originally came from...
...Arpad's finest trait is his humanness. Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's. Says Heimer: "He's a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane -one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
...nearest staff correspondent was in Rochester, 45 miles away, and could not be immediately reached. Was there anyone who was reasonably intelligent in the store at the moment? Was there anyone there who wanted a job? Who, When, Where, What. Druggist Milligan summoned Hudson Randall to the phone. Rewriteman Ellis gave his instructions-try to find out what caused the wreck; try to learn exactly how many people were killed, and how many injured; get their names and addresses and be sure to get the spelling straight; and call back every half hour or so. Hudson said sure...
...been planning to leave in disgust: "I think I'll stick around awhile. He looks O.K." New Man. Until he went to work for the Sun last week, 45-year-old Eli Zachary Dimitman had never worked outside Philadelphia. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer 18 years ago as rewriteman, was city editor when Moses L. (Moe) Annenberg, the racing-sheet publisher now dead, took over the Inquirer in 1936. Talent-wise Moe Annenberg at once made Dimmy executive editor...