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...tone of the day's activities with a brisk "Good morning, slaves," to her staff, sweeps into her office, climbs into more comfortable shoes, and settles down to the morning mail and the notes prepared by her legman, a University of North Carolina Phi Bete named David ("Spec") McClure...
...secretary, Treva Davidson, and begins to dictate. It takes her about an hour and a half to do 800 words. Sometimes she does two or three columns in a day. Two or three days a week she takes off for the studios. If it is a personal interview, Spec goes along. Hedda does the talking; Spec takes the notes. Evenings, she is hard at work too-at some of the 50 parties a week she is invited...
...Spectator's run-in with the U. S. Navy, which has little connection with the preceding issue except that both may be said to involve censorship has to do with a column called "Sea Breeze" for Navy men which has been run in Spec for several months: something like the Lucky Bag which used to run in the SERVICE NEWS...
...Columbia's V-12 and NROTC programs at the beginning of the present term. The naval undergraduates at Columbia found Captain Wellings "an old salt who insists on complete compliance with his orders, and with a minimum of controversy and dissension," according to a member of the Spec staff...
...compromise was reached, says a member of the Spec staff, by which Smith was appointed Navy censor of all "Sea Breeze" material. Wellings achieved his end: Navy material would be censored. Smith remained in command on Spectator...