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...long lashes, a pink and white complexion" was sent to Moran for "vetting." "He made every possible excuse to put off my examination . . . but [his commanding officer] told him to get a move on. When the lad stripped, we found he was wearing a coat of mail under his vest." ¶ Another entry in the Moran diary: "Just now a man was brought to my dugout on a stretcher. Half his hand was gone and his leg below the knee was crushed and broken. While his wounds were dressed he smoked, lighting a new cigarette from the stump...
Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
After the returns were in, the rheumy-eyed old Mayor sat at home, cigar ashes spilling on his vest, and muttered defiance. "The crusaders got me," he mumbled, "but the people will be asking me to run again. Why do they always talk about the goddam girls? I didn't put stools in the bars for them...
...lesson in reporting that Tom Stokes remembers best came on the day when, with a shiny new Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Georgia dangling on his vest, he reported for work at the Savannah Press. Managing Editor William G. ("Billy") Sutlive looked him over dourly, barked: "There are two things I want to tell you. One is that a good reporter is half head. The other is that he's half legs. We don't do any telephone reporting around here; we go out and see people...
...like the eighth wonder of the world. The production, what with buying and brilliantining the historic Ziegfeld Theater, cost $1,350,000. The show had a record-breaking advance ticket sale of $550,000. It opened at a $24 top, with enough big names on the program for a vest-pocket Who's Who, enough plushy people in the audience for a reception to royalty. And in the crowded lounge during intermission, with flunkeys passing champagne, it looked like...