- Billie Newman: Did you run out of new column ideas?
- Hal Hennecker: I ran out of new column ideas in June.
- [a beat]
- Hal Hennecker: 1963.
- Mrs. Pynchon: [about Calectronics' add in the Tribune] This is not circumvention. It is not even intimidation. This is an act of war.
- Rick Havens: [about the Tribune's article about Calectronics] This isn't a newspaper, it's a scandal sheet!
- Lou Grant: Relax... I think that bending over backwards now and then is pretty good exercise for a newspaper.