Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SPORTSMAN'S NOTEBOOK (398 pp.)-Ivan Turgenev, translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn - Chanticleer...
...difficulty goes deeper than language. I want facts, facts to be set down with finality in my notebook. I prod the colonel: How many people have gone home? How much weaker are the Huks? How can he tell? He looks more & more harassed; suddenly he grins with a certain ferocity, and jabs his lean, dark hand at me and at each of the small group of officers who surround...
President Shaw and Gallery Director Helen Appleton Read arrange for sittings and prices, keep a notebook on their artists filled with such useful jottings as "Enjoys putting in animals," and "Won't paint a woman's hair if freshly waved." They never accept payment for portraits until delivered and approved, on the theory that unsatisfactory ones are "bad for the artist and bad for us. There's no public in the attic." But they sadly admit that "Someone always knocks a portrait. We can't guarantee the customer's relatives and friends will like...
...stream of blue paper memos, suggestions, questions and advice to all departments. Most of those to the editorial department are necessarily after the fact; usually he does not see news stories and editorials until they are printed. To help keep track of things, he makes frequent notes in the notebook he always carries. Once, at a private dinner, he heard a friend talk about a new film-color process, jotted down a note. When a story on the process duly appeared in the Times, the friend was shocked, argued that it had been a breach of confidence to print...
...anti-Fair Deal Miami Herald (circ. 159,067) leaned over backwards to give President Truman a fair deal as he vacationed in Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In his weekly "Editor's Notebook" column, Publisher John S. Knight wrote: "During previous vacations at Key West, you have thought the 'Editor's Notebook' was unnecessarily critical of presidential actions and decisions. In other words, when a fellow's on a holiday, he doesn't like to have his breakfast spoiled by reading uncomplimentary editorials . . . I think I understand how you feel, Mr. President...