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...readily. Hammett was crucial to her success. When she began writing plays, he typed them (in those days she was a $15-a-week manuscript reader; he was a famous author). He slaved over her first hit, The Children's Hour, giving her the plot, goading her to sharpen the language and making her exaggerated gambits more realistic. Meanwhile, his own fiction was languishing; weakened by drink and pulmonary disease, he published only one book, The Thin Man, after he met Hellman...
...later, they faxed talking points on trade and other matters to his campaign plane; Dole surprised them by using the material. Meanwhile, campaign manager Scott Reed has reached out to a group of elected officials, from House Speaker Newt Gingrich to New Hampshire Governor Steve Merrill, to help Dole sharpen his message...
However, Friday's action against Dartmouth will offer an opportunity for the Crimson to sharpen its play for the tournaments...
With the Heptagonal Championships less than two weeks away, this meet will be approached as an opportunity for the team to sharpen up their competitive skills. More important, however, is the final week before the Championship. This is when the often neglected mental preparation will have to be done...
Dole's top advisers meanwhile were polling and planning and desperately spinning about how the general's presence in the race would actually help Dole, by forcing him to sharpen up his message as the true conservative choice. But out in the field, Dole's operatives were finding that they had a different problem on their hands...