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...first thing a copy boy or cub reporter learns in the average city room is not to whistle, hum or sing. It's bad luck, and furthermore, it's disconcerting. But for more than two years, every 15 minutes from dawn till dark, the staid city room of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (circ. 114,854) has echoed to the strains of such treacly tunes as Dear Hearts & Gentle People and Because You Love Me. Miss Eleanor McClatchy, fiftyish, publisher of the Bee, wants it that way. She thinks that the music (piped in by Muzak) relaxes...
While the specialists worked furiously, traders' watched the magnified ticker tape flickering across the screens at the four corners of the great room to catch the flash on the price. Not till ten minutes later, a long time by Wall Street's split-second standards, did the tape flash, the first sale-and bring a roar of approval from the floor. The sale: a 25,000-share bloc worth $2,243,750 was sold for 89¾, up 2¼ points from the previous close and within an eyelash of G.M.'s all-time high...
Manager Sawyer is showing confidence in his youngsters, by giving them chances and taking them himself, but he is sticking to his own time schedule. Borrowing a time-honored Brooklyn line of a few seasons back, Sawyer says: "We're still a year away, but wait till next year...
Banging away at his typewriter, sometimes "from 11 a.m. till 2 o'clock at night," Lewis found the age of Grant becoming "incredibly real" to him. "Some days," he wrote, "it seems the only real thing in the world." He made endless journeys to coax new material out of aging heirs and yellowing documents, ended up writing 30 versions of his first chapter before he was satisfied. This week, as Volume I finally appeared, readers had a chance to sample the fine result of Lewis' hard-working devotion, but without hope of reading the rest of the story...
Then the Boston road scandal broke last month. Boston's Financial Commission drilled into year-old street jobs and dug up dishonesty and corruption. Where contracts called for excavations, back fill, crushed till, asphalt, oil, gravel, and hot-top asphalt, they found nothing but hot-top asphalt. The repair was only skin deep; beneath the hot-top asphalt lay the old street and fraud...