Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bilingual Panama American. When he was promoted, Payne took his old job. That set the pattern that they have been following since. Forbis became our stringer in Panama, then staff correspondent for Central America. Payne followed him as stringer. and when in 1951 Forbis moved to New York to write HEMISPHERE news. Payne came on the staff as Central America correspondent...
Thanks to the zealous bureaucrats who write the rules, many a traveler arriving in New Zealand by air soon wishes he hadn't. Last week Tom Shand, New Zealand's new Minister of Civil Aviation, decided to give the bureaucrats a taste of their own medicine. He invited nine of the nation's top civil servants to join him on an airborne "picnic" to Auckland. It was a bumpy flight (the pilot had been encouraged to seek out the roughest patches of air), and before it was over, the passengers were handed landing forms to fill...
...inspector was found to be carrying an undeclared pistol. A representative of the Reserve Bank was accused of smuggling in undeclared dollars. The Health Department man was found to be short one vaccination and was forced to take his shot then and there. Feeling duly humbled, the men who write New Zealand's entry rules were taken over to watch a planeload of genuine tourists go through the same agonies in earnest...
...Publisher James Quirk, veteran Philadelphia newsman and onetime press chief for General Matthew Ridgway in Korea and Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional offices to find out what the networks will be sending. Says Quirk...
...this time around, but though they cut up the work, they will miss the man. Novels No. 5 and No. 6 are already in the mental blueprint stage ("I wouldn't even tell my wife what they're about"). Says Wouk earnestly: "I'm going to write novels for the rest of my life, each one better than the last...