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Ponsonby soon became well drilled in the royal crotchets. When he wrote a memo concerning the Duchess of Connaught (wife of the Queen's grandson), he got it back with the note: "Always put 'H.R.H.,' otherwise it would look as if she was an ordinary Duchess." When he made a helpful suggestion about a maid of honor, it came back with the words: "The Queen has yet to learn that Capt. Ponsonby has anything to do with the Maids of Honor." Much the same snub was inflicted on an earnest clergyman who tried to rouse Victoria...
...also finds that he is no longer quite so sure what success is. Some days, even after his most stupendous feats, with the stadium roar pounding in his head, he is most downcast. One thing he is sure he wants is Memo Paris, the manager's redhaired, teasing niece. But what Memo wants is fun and money, big money. The temptation to get that money the fast, easy way by helping to throw a playoff game brings Roy to his final tragic crisis...
...Your Fire. Finch is on his way. He writes memos ("concerned only incidentally with its apparent subject"). "The main object of the memo is to impress the people who read it . . ." Other people's memos may be returned unread with a note: "'Mighty clear exposition...
...powder) has been used in paint, while metallurgists sought to smelt it into a metal. It was not until 1946 that William Kroll, a metallurgist for the Bureau of Mines, managed to produce small grey spongelike globs of metal which could be cast into ingots. The Bureau sent a memo on titanium to Colonel John Dick, 49, chief of the Materials and Components Division of the Air Force Industrial Resources Directorate, "who became a one-man publicity bureau for the metal, began plugging it to the armed services...
...they prepared to cover the Republican Convention next week, newsmen all agreed on one point. Their big competitor in Chicago will not be the other newsmen; it will be television and its gavel-to-gavel coverage. In a memo to his staff, Scripps-Howard's news executive Dick Thornburg sketched the plan of battle against TV: "Our job more than at any time in the past will be to provide interpretive material. Why did Joe Blow make that kind of a speech? What influence did it have? What votes did it change? Also, forward-looking stories telling the readers...