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...addition to a picture staff of 12 assistant editors, researchers and layout men, Boyd's crew includes some 27 production assistants, teletypeset-ters and proofreaders. Finding the right pictures to illustrate our stories is a big job; fitting the edited stories and the pictures into their allotted space in the magazine, and transmitting them to the printing plants in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles is a bigger job. The Production Department, which handles this meticulous, involved operation, has adopted as its motto: "All the news printed that fits...
...Boyd's week begins calmly enough on Thursday and moves like a rising pressure gauge through a welter of pictures, photostats, magazine dummies, make-up forms and teletypesetter copy to a climax around 3 a.m. on Tuesday when he gets the final "We are ready to say goodnight" from the printing plants. By that time all of the editors' picture and production requirements have been settled to the best of Boyd's and his assistants' ability. They have probably combed the country to find the one right picture to illustrate some special story. They may have...
...adds up to an exacting job done under high-speed pressure-and Bob Boyd is the man for it. For one thing, he is 100-proof tireless. He suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They...
...college (Princeton) Bob Boyd played lacrosse and water polo, and was a member of the Triangle Club (amateur theatricals). A native New Yorker, he was graduated into the Depression year of 1932 as a psychology major ("of all things"). Openings in that field being scarce, he took a job demonstrating floor waxers. This led to selling magazine subscriptions and a job on Newsweek addressing envelopes to U.S. Senators. In 1938 Bob Boyd came to work for TIME...
...busy man, Boyd manages to find time for a surprising number of extracurricular activities...