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deskman

[desk-man, -muhn] / ˈdɛskˌmæn, -mən /


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The mirage blinded a CBS Washington deskman named James E. Roper one evening a fortnight ago, as he scanned the script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network.

From Time Magazine Archive

His other positions on the magazine included bureau chief in Ottawa, deskman in New York and Deputy Chief of the Time-Life News Service.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck

The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau.

From Time Magazine Archive

There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.

From Time Magazine Archive

City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Derek Almeida —————————————————————————————————————— Derek Almeida, besides being one of Goa's finest and most aesthetically-balanced deskmen, steals time to write humour columns whenever possible.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various




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