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Twenty hours a day was the usual stint of Tchitcherin. Often he worked without sleep clear around the clock. In those days the Soviet Foreign Office was full of peasants and proletarians, learning to be diplomats. Tchitcherin had to do almost everything himself, and correct what others did. Under the terrible pressure of conducting single-handed the foreign affairs of Europe's largest nation. Tchitcherin burned himself out with detail, reached the point where he sharpened his own pencils...
Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New-York World-Telegram, as part of his daily stint, related a story which "a priest told me of Cardinal Gibbons. . . . When he returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner...
...Catholic, her conscience is with her as constantly as her portable typewriter, which it is not unusual to see in action on station platforms or in railroad cars when her copy is nearly due. Mornings at home, her telephones (and her husband's) are disconnected until the day's stint is done. Said she once to an interviewer: "Please don't make me out a prig. I wish you'd think of me as a strong, silent character, but I'm afraid...
Rich, Mr. Washburn did not stint himself in Vienna, one of the cheapest capitals in the world. He lived in almost regal style, butlered, footmanned, flunkied. Mrs. Washburn's balls were of a character to make her the uncrowned queen of the Diplomatic Corps...
...neophyte panting to remake the newspaper world was Editor Weitzenkorn. At 16, as a cub reporter on the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times-Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...