article_snippet.sent: (CNN)I was a copygirl in my fourth month at the Chicago Daily News, my second assigned to the city desk.  
article_snippet.sent: It was so quiet that afternoon -- 70 years ago, on Thursday, April 12, 1945 -- the city editor and assistant city editor had felt comfortable leaving the city editor and assistant city editor desks.  
article_snippet.sent: the city editor and assistant city editor, was to my left.  
article_snippet.sent: To my right, perhaps 6 feet away, the telegraph editor, George Dodge.
article_snippet.sent: The words had barely cleared his lips when City Editor Clem Lane half-ran back into the city room.  
article_snippet.sent: The door of the managing editor's office that opened into the city room flew open, and Managing Editor Everett Norlander joined Hal O'Flaherty, director of the Daily News Foreign Service around the copy desk, where George Dodge was editing the bulletin.
article_snippet.sent: City Editor Clem Lane wheeled toward the rewrite desk.  
article_snippet.sent: The chief editorial writer had a corner office at the far end of the long office corridor.  
article_snippet.sent: The chief editorial writer turned, saw me in the doorway, a teenager in penny loafers, a cardigan sweater and a pleated plaid skirt, and said with a nod, "Of course.