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...still making notes, was taken seasick. Although she fought it off, she suggests the following procedure for such occasions: "If you have to take shorthand on a sloop, don't do it for any length of time. It's that business of looking constantly down at a pad...
...years in & around the docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole and still steal $50 million a year in cargoes, mostly in broad daylight (shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along...
...Friends. While Mazo sits with her writing pad, Caroline looks after Mazo's two adopted children, hunts for antique furniture, old silver and brocades, shops for Mazo's clothes. Another of Caroline's tasks is to ward off callers. Says sister Caroline: "Her hobby is privacy...
Miss de la Roche lives on a quiet Toronto street in a red brick house shaded by poplar trees. There at 9 o'clock every working morning, with a writing pad on her knees, she scribbles out her story. By noon, as much as 1,000 words are written and ready to be transcribed by a secretary. Then Mazo, accompanied by her poodle, Chrysanthemum, goes for a long-striding walk before lunch...
...home of Roger Straus, banker and longtime Dewey adviser. Then, flanked by his wife, his two sons, his mother (who had come from Owosso to be with her son at his great moment) and aides Elliott Bell and Paul Lockwood, he settled himself in his suite with a pad of yellow scratch paper on his lap. He watched a television set, listened to the radio, scanned bulletins from a news ticker. Press Secretary Jim Hagerty proclaimed confidently: "We may be out of the trenches by midnight...