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Some of the details include running the Teletype machine, proofreading copy ("including correcting my spelling," adds Collins) and taking dictation, sometimes at a marathon pace amounting to 35,000 words on a cover story. One of her longest dictation stretches was on Dday, 1944, when correspondents were alerted to report local reaction. It was an all-day running story, with Mary sitting in the office taking the copy on the phone-"one of the few times when life in a news bureau was like life on a newspaper in the movies...
...rock barrier 14 months ahead of schedule to finish a great, 5½-mile railroad tunnel in the rugged Rimutaka Mountains. By M-K standards, it was a small-scale operation, costing only about $7,000,000. But on the record, it was one of the world's longest railroad tunnels and one of the greatest construction feats in New Zealand history...
...best amateur groups; that alertness which results in playing even the "easy" parts with bite an precision, and an unanimity and assurance in the entrances. Burgin allowed himself virtually no shadings in the tempo within a given section. This was regrettable, though perhaps unavoidable, for Schubert seems longest when he's gotten over most quickly; and the memory of a Mahier 4th performance a few weeks ago proves that Burgin can be very adept in the Viennese style when he wishes...
Stephen Banker's "Clara on Buses" shifts the locale from country to city and is the issue's longest offering. The story is a piece of analytic reminiscence about the courting days of a New York high school couple. Banker writes without subtlety: most of the gestures and remarks of his characters are interpreted in his prose. Much of the story is dull and some of it is riddled with cliches--"And again, for reasons unknown, the tone of their conversation has changed. They speak in low, intimate voices: something has created a bond between them...
Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...