Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smile, his compact, 183-Ib. frame and close-cropped, curly hair help him when he wants to be charming-and his short-fused temper is almost legendary. "Pete wants to hear a clear and specific answer, or 'Yes,' 'No,' or 'Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with a speech in explanation for having goofed off. His bawlings-out are fierce. He's no brilliant guy, but what he does have is a helluva sense of duty and principle in public service...
...started his seventh decade on the job, Ingram and I.L.N. were still in fine fettle. Circulation hovered around 500,000, and the magazine had just plowed $1,500,000 into a new printing plant, moved its twelve staffers into a handsome new building on John Adam Street. Last week, as carpenters were putting the finishing touches on his office, Sir Bruce was without a desk for the first time in 60 years. "Not that it makes any difference," shrugged a staffer. "He never was the kind of editor who could sit at a desk...
Died. Clarence George ("Pete") Wellington, 69, longtime (since 1916) staffer of the Kansas City Star who rose to managing editor (1947-54) and executive editor (since 1954), received a rare accolade from onetime Star Cub Reporter Ernest Hemingway: "He taught me how to write"; of a heart attack, while on a Caribbean cruise...
...minute animated cartoon that cost $300,000, is one of those rare industrial films with enough specific quality and general interest to play the commercial circuits. In the next few months it will be shown as an added attraction in several thousand U.S. movie houses. Made by former Disney Staffer John Sutherland, Rhapsody sets out to tell a sort of child's history of steel from the first meteor that ever hit the earth to the first manned rocket that leaves it, and most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily...
...with Republican congressional leaders, and used his veto and the threat of his veto against lolly-gagging money bills. At year's end a balanced budget was in jeopardy, only because of the steel strike. Eisenhower had performed the political miracle of making economy popular. Grinned a White House staffer: "When those Congressmen come back in January, they're going to be so anxious to find something to cut that they'll cut their own wrists if necessary...