Word: riesel
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...morning last week, Syndicated Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, accompanied by a bodyguard, reached his 15th-floor office in midtown Manhattan to begin another working day. Unassisted, he disengaged a system of multiple door locks and felt his way to his desk. Sitting alone, Riesel mulled over story possibilities; as ideas came to him, he wrote them down in a barely legible hand. He dialed a friend's number on the telephone. "Read me the Times," he said, and listened intently for about 15 minutes. Columnist Riesel, 45, cannot read the Times for himself: he has been almost blind since...
...time Riesel hung up the telephone, his assistants, Miriam Goldfine and Dulcie Ponon, had arrived. Dulcie clipped and read to Riesel portions of the news coming in on the U.P.I, ticker; she also read selectively from the other New York morning papers, including the Wall Street Journal...
Reporting with the Telephone. At about 9:30 Riesel began to gather, by telephone, the material for the day's column. While he placed calls all over...
Miriam Goldnne consulted the office background file. All this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report ... I want exact figures on the Sun Valley land deal." It took him one hour and 3^ triple-spaced typewritten pages, each full page breaking neatly with a finished paragraph...
That evening, after the girls had gone, Riesel called in one of the ten readers he hires for after hours duty, for a session that lasted until 11:30. A voracious reader when he had his sight, Riesel is now an inexhaustible listener ("I've got listening down to a science"). He has kept hired readers working for as long as 15 hours at a stretch. Frequently, to save time, he makes Miriam and Dulcie read simultaneously from separate documents...