Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distributed across the nation on Thursday, for reading over the weekend. TIME editorial workers have Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. TIME'S editorial operations are laid out in a series of concentric circles. As the week wears on, the focus of activity contracts from circle to circle toward the center...
Their stories go to the copy desk, which bears no resemblance to a newspaper copy desk. It is a busy traffic center where stories are typed, "styled" for capitalization, etc., counted for an estimate of how much space they will take in the magazine...
When stories are passed by senior editors, the copy desk sends them to the circles' center, Managing Editor Matthews. From the start of the work week he has been reading papers, magazines, dispatches, trying to get the "feel" of the week's news, to figure out what is important and what isn't. He has probably sent out 40 or 50 notes to editors and writers. These include suggestions ranging from an outline of the lead story in National Affairs to a nice phrase from the Economist. A dozen times a day, he is in touch with...
TIME'S editorial offices occupy the 28th and 29th floors of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center. They are plainly furnished and littered with paper. The prevailing atmosphere is tension, tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...
...furtive presence, a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought. At worst, He is conversationally embarrassing. There is scarcely any danger that a member of the neighborhood church will, like Job, hear God speak out of the whirlwind (whirlwinds are dangerous), or that he will be moved to dash down the center aisle, crying, like Isaiah: "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish...