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...space allotted to them. Trailing long galleys, the writers and other people on late duty constantly consulted the busy man on the high stool: Director of Computer Composition Robert Boyd. Whenever anything is about to go wrong at the end of the week-a misplaced sentence, a missing picture caption, an inexplicably overlong story-everyone knows that the man to see is Boyd. He can locate the sentence, rewrite the caption -even, it sometimes seems, mysteriously enlarge or shrink a page. As usual, Boyd was working round the clock till he discharged his last duty late on Saturday: sending instructions...
...azalea, or I'm not from Decatur. Why, there's nothing "lily" about it. Yes, sir, I'd know an azalea if it was dressed in a clown suit, and an azalea is just what you've got under that CALLA LILY caption...
...vignette seems at first too recognizable. Any mother would bring along a chicken. But only Mrs. Lapinsky would present it snuggled in a pot, surrounded with potatoes and vegetables all cleaned and carefully cut, ready for the front burner. The scene becomes a classic car toon with a new caption...
...would like to clear up an error made in the printing of a photograph and caption in the Behavior section [Nov. 24]. The couple depicted are in no sense "troubled parents." Their family is indeed a happy one, with the photograph of them and their children attesting to the fruits of visits in earlier years by the couple only...
Elliot L. Richardson '41, Ambassador to the Court of St. James and Secretary of Commerce designate, "unfortunately could not appear" to introduce Bailyn as planned. That morning a picture of Richardson beamed from the center of page one of The Times (of London). Its caption referred to an article on page eight: "Overseas--Mr. Elliot Richardson says he has no Ambition to Stand for United States VicePresidency...