And Bob Dall had insisted in his original three-page memo to the Salomon executive committee that the mortgage department stand alone.

He prefers magazines the way they come in the mail , he confessed, and he cannot read anything longer on his computer screen than a three-page memo.

He prepared a three-page memo of concerns for the board.

Korff furnished a three-page memo, replete with much of the gimmickry he has utilized in his own 20-year-old summer tournament, now called the A.&P. Tennis Classic.

"I had a lawyer write me a three-page memo on why it was uncollectable, but I don't really take that very well," Mr. Colombo said.

And, each of the more than two dozen department heads at board headquarters has been asked to write three-page memos describing their most important projects.

On Sept. 22, 1988, Ms. Washington, apparently disenchanted, wrote Mr. Johnson a three-page memo in which she accused him of an "arrogant Napoleonic stance."

At Neidorf's trial, a Bell South employee eventually revealed that the program" was actually a three-page memo available to Bell South customers for less than $30.

The three-page memo was never read by Mr. Reagan, who disdains details of foreign policy matters, but was apparently conveyed to him orally by Admiral Poindexter.

You can't be expected to read everything in lengthy two- or three-page memos, especially the stuff at the end.