deskman
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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.
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They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up.
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His other positions on the magazine included bureau chief in Ottawa, deskman in New York and Deputy Chief of the Time-Life News Service.
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TN February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker.
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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
There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs.
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City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.
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There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.
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Once so shorthanded that columnists had to wind computer tape and deskmen had to help set type, the staff now works almost normal shifts.
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But the deskmen command a temporary majority: for the short while they shall hold the cards they have the right to call the game.
From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame
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