midnight
`` Whew ! '' whistled Wayne . `` We _ shall _ have some paper . '' From midnight until 2.30 in the morning the reporters on the great story dribbled in . Each , as he arrived , said a brief word to Wayne , got a curt direction , slumped into his seat , and silently wrote . It was all very methodical and quiet and orderly . A really big news event always is after the first disturbance of adjustment .