The Press: Cary Me Bok

Efficiency Expert Guy T. Viskniskki swept down on Gary Bok's Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger office last November like a wolf on the fold. Shortly thereafter towels from one of three racks disappeared from a Ledger washroom, but Expert Viskniskki denied it was any of his doing (TIME, Jan. 15). Last week unhappy Ledger newsmen to the tune of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, were singing under their breath:

Cary me Bok from old Viskniskki—

There's where the washroom and the soap and towels grow,

There's where the lim'ricks warble sweet in the springtime,*

There's where this old Guildsman's longing not to go....

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