Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trees. The Atlantic gets 40,000 manuscripts a year and the nine-man staff reads them all. (The G.B.S. piece came in "over the transom"-unsolicited.) Associate Editor Charles W. Morton helps Weeks develop new article ideas. They understand each other so well that conferences are as elliptical as shorthand. (Morton to Weeks: "Atomic bomb-Einstein." Weeks to Morton: "I'll call Swing...
...Wallace. In a book published this week, ex-Secretary of State Byrnes tells the story of the diplomatic struggle in which he took part, from Yalta (January 1945) to the New York conference of Foreign Ministers (November 1946). Written* from records and from onetime court reporter Byrnes's shorthand notes, Speaking Frankly (Harper, $3.50) is sometimes illuminating, sometimes frank. Byrnes admires Molotov. Towards Wallace he is bitter...
...TIME'S statement was taken from shorthand notes of an interview with Editor Bucke by a TIME reporter...
...police shorthand writer, leaning against a wall, impassively took note of this incitement to violence. Three-quarters of the crowd approved it. ... Standing in the streets were ordinary working men, listening with attention and with approbation. 'That's right' they said, as the speaker told them of the folly of making war on Germany. 'That's right,' they said, as he denounced the House of Commons as an institution...
...cluttered as the inside of a stenographer's purse, but the stenographers seem to like it that way. The contents run to bootstrap success stories, needlepoint notes, advice on hairdos and boy friends, with a confidential editor's memo printed in Miss Oliver's own Gregg shorthand...