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...personally devised shorthand, he made voluminous notes on the island, and when the Marines were relieved in March 1942, the incoming Army commander-a two-star general-took over Colonel Smith's transcribed notes as the military bible for the station. After taking his battalion to San Diego, Smith was ordered to Washington and duty on the Corps' Plans & Policy Division ("Pots & Pans...
Rupertus exploded in a barrage of blistering Marine denunciation. After listening for a minute or two-still at attention -Smith whipped out a notebook and began taking down his superior's remarks in his odd shorthand. "And that," another officer recalled, "was just about the way Smith was. He would never have said anything back to Rupertus, because he [Smith] was a marine by the books. The general was talking, so Smith just stood there like he was in staff meeting, taking notes...
...down and tackled the accumulation of personal mail that he always handles himself. No advisers were with him. The only other person in his office was his quiet and devoted personal secretary, Miss Rose Conway. The presidential voice droned through the dictation, the Conway pencil traced its neat shorthand-until Mr. Truman's eyes fell on a letter from California's Republican Congressman Gordon L. McDonough...
Most of timid, inefficient Betty's jobs were as dull in the doing as they are in the telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...
...writing the concerto, Hungarian Bela Bartok knew he was racing against death. Hating to waste one moment of time or one inch of score paper, the poverty-stricken composer wrote in a highly individualized musical shorthand, sometimes indicating whole passages with one or two pothooks, often squeezing in bars off the clef-at the edges and bottom of the sheet-without even indicating where they belonged. His most puzzling short cut was in the correction of notes: instead of erasing, Bartok grafted his improvement right onto the original...