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...quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy") to the latest blessed event in the Indian colony. Occasionally his desire...
Louis Post-Dispatch, a subeditor for the Manhattan publishing house of Doubleday, Doran, and for five years (after a stint of movie writing in Hollywood) a story scout for 20th Century-Fox films...
...Philadelphia, schools developed plans to fill retail-sales jobs on a basis of afternoon work on school days, an eight-hour Saturday stint. Returns to school were up over...
Miscellany: Byrne--he of the trigger mind--urges the shortening of the Harvard deal to a two-week stint . . . Orchild of the week to the Welfare Office for the Kid Xmas Party . . . Things we still don't understand: Why they call Pike "Conscienceless" . . . Section A has learned that the two-finger rule must be applied in more than one of their classes--ask Cook . . . Tomorrow will be the first "normal" working Nooyers Day for quite a few of the communicators . . . Until next week, HNY and all that...
...outfit's top men met, there was no need for explanations for General Hoicomb's retirement. He was still in good physical shape, could still do his day's stint in the field. But he had reached the retirement age of 64 last August. Tommy Holcomb had always insisted that Commandants should walk, not be wheeled out of office. Only the insistence of the Commander in Chief had kept him on the job beyond the legal limit...