Show TAKE MY WORD FOR IT By Frank Colby SECRETARY'S II HANDBOOK Scrapbook Item Q My boss dictated This move will be conductive to better better better bet bet- ter 1 labor labor- a b o 0 r management rela rela- correct Is conductive A. A. A M.A. M.A. M.A. M. M A. A No Conductive suggests suggest conductivity as of electricity The proper word is 8 conducive tending to promote helpful favorable to Q Say that one was born In one city but now makes ones one's home in another Can such a person person person per per- son say that he is a native of the latter place place place-M. M. M G. G W. W A. A No A native is one who was born in a particular place The word native is ig from the French naUf natif from the Latin na- na tivus born that which has come Into existence by birth A person perRon born in Boston is ig a native Bostonian although he may now live in Chicago In which case he heIs heis heis is a resident or citizen of Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago and may properly call himself himself himself him him- self a Chicagoan Q In writing fiction should the unspoken thoughts of a character be enclosed in quotation quotation quotation quota quota- tion marks D. D. D McC I A. A In the best usage unspoken unspoken un un- spoken thoughts are arc not regarded regard regard- ed quotations Note He ceased abruptly his hil eyes fell into their dream Very like the girl Charcot showed me in my younger days thought Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Benet Q Will you please give the correct way of addressing a letter letter letter let let- I ter to President Harry Truman J J. J L. L R. R S A. A This is the correct form The President The White House Washington D. D C. C I I restaurant managers To brighten thIn up they decided to get some ice cre ere past the A F L pickets 1 One day last week a dark unmark truck pulled up to the delivery As the pickets crowded around the dri they saw doors of dresses nightgowns j Iother I a other shimmering undergarments hangi hang inside Then the driver reached In i a pulled out a case of ice cream and ruIt rui ru ruai it into the kitchen Now the pickets picket calling the dessert ice cream a la Is linger lingert l I Moral ral Provided 1 1 Broadways Broadway's smash hit Mr Robert starring Henry Fonda and impish David Wayne has been the cen ceni of a jurisdictional dispute How this balwas bat bal was settled has a moral for the rest of I t country When it was announced that I 3 Roberts was to b be the first play to toj televised from a Broadway stage beDick to be Dick Walsh's stage hands and Dan Trac electricians claimed the right to union nI television cameramen for this will be a 1 t I field i iSo So W Walsh and Tracy being men sat down together And now h the cameramen will belong to the sti sta hands and half to the electricians Ever er body's happy the happy the unions the cast t t broadcasters and the public Emil Rieves big member C C Cl J Textile Workers has just bought its 61 o building at 99 09 University place in N I York But it may have to keep its slit shi tern down because right across the atrE Is the Communist Daily Worker w wit froths troths over whenever it him J j Copyright 1948 N. N Y Post Corp 1 Si |