Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trees. The Atlantic gets 40,000 manuscripts a year and the nine-man staff reads them all. (The G.B.S. piece came in "over the transom"-unsolicited.) Associate Editor Charles W. Morton helps Weeks develop new article ideas. They understand each other so well that conferences are as elliptical as shorthand. (Morton to Weeks: "Atomic bomb-Einstein." Weeks to Morton: "I'll call Swing...
...staff of the Daily Express is the best paid in Fleet Street, and Christiansen says it has the hardest-working editor. He gets up at 8:30, reads the papers until 10, then makes for the bathroom. There he reads and shaves at the same time...
...luncheon conference with his editors, he talks over the news. After lunch, he criticizes stories, confers with the night staff, often rewrites the editorials. Says he: "We never waste space saying 'On the one hand.' . . . We just state an opinion in a godlike voice...
...Dictator Juan Perón, the Nobel windfall ($24,460, half the prize) would come in handy. The award was for Houssay's studies of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain. He had shown that pituitary hormones, like messengers from a general staff headquarters, control the activity of all other ductless glands in the body. He had also discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes...
Memorial has no secret cures for cancer. Its staff has comparatively few world-renowned cancer fighters (one of the few: Surgeon Alexander Brunschwig, formerly of the University of Chicago (TIME, March 17). But its able, well-coordinated team is waging a hard-hitting campaign against cancer on four fronts-prevention, treatment, teaching, research...