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A woman with this job recalls how her husband distracted a judge by hiring a plane to skywrite, “Don’t be hasty. Remember my dimple.” A character with this job references 1933’s Alice in Wonderland by yelling “get back in there, you Mock Turtle!” to a man peeking out of a rolltop desk. A man with this job has a toy trumpet fetched before toppling a blanket on a string he calls “the walls of Jericho.” After ditching a crashed (*) bus, a man with this job fails to flag down passing cars using his thumb, inspiring his companion to stop a Model T by showing her leg. An estranged couple with this job hide a death row fugitive in their office in a Howard Hawks screwball. For 10 points, name this job of Peter in It Happened One Night and Walter and Hildy in His Girl Friday. ■END■
ANSWER: newspaper reporter [or journalist, editor, newspaperwoman, newspaperman, newsman, newswoman, investigative reporter]
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