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Show One Bit of Tough Detail That Smith Didn't Mind Two men worked side by side in a War Production board office. They never spoke, but each watched the other. One man left work daily at four o'clock. The other toiled on till six or later. Some months passed. Then the harder-working of the two approached ap-proached the other. "I beg your pardon," he said, "but do you mind telling me how you can clean up your work every day at four o'clock?" "Not at all," said the other man. "When I come to a tough piece of detail; I mark it, 'Refer to Mr. Smith.' I figure that, in a department depart-ment as large as this, there is sure to be a Mr. Smith. And I must be right; those papers never come back." The harder worker started to remove re-move his coat. "Brother," he said, "prepare for oinn T'm Mr Smith " |