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Anne Campbell, a friendly lady with grey-streaked hair, admits that sometimes her stuff gets "a bit corny." But she works hard over her verses, laboriously pecking them out a month in advance on her typewriter. Wherever she goes, her notebook goes with her; sometimes friends find her interrupting a conversation to write down some idea for a verse ("I'd like to sweep my soul in spring, And let the sunshine flood my brain"). Her verses pay her $10,000 a year, are syndicated in 30 U.S., Canadian and British papers, and draw about 100 fan letters...
...hands for action. He listened intently as the professor capped his pedantic climax with rhetorical summing-up, cleverly designed to wake the sleeping in time to applaud. Three Cheers for the Reading Period, Vag thought, as he led off the clapping, and then pushing past the knees of the notebook-filler beside him, found the aisle at last and then the stairs...
...answered grimly, and stealing only a slight glance at her white-socked legs as she danced to a seat in the front, returned to the mosaic he was working on his notebook cover...
...instructor had already begun lecturing when Vag got to Isotopic Topography 1b. "What's happened?" Vag whispered to the man sitting next to him. "Here are ten formulas to memorize by Monday," his neighbor answered, offering his notebook. "Also, twelve problems that have to be answered and handed in, first two-hundred pages of Filehick's 'Isotopes in Action,' and lesson twelve in the work-book a bitch of a course...
...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...