Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Dick Serafin left his TIME office in Chicago, the weather reports were forecasting only a light snowfall...
That prospect did not faze him at all. As TIME'S Chicago production and distribution manager, he is used to coping with the challenges of his city's winters. But Serafin awoke the next morning to find nearly a foot of snow on the ground, with more coming. "It was snowing so heavily," he recalls, "that I couldn't see the end of my block. I was completely surprised-and very worried...
Understandably so. Every weekend the pages of TIME are composed on film at Chicago's R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. printing plant, and a set of negatives is flown to each of our other seven printing plants throughout the U.S. and seven more scattered around the world. If the film packets leave Chicago late, special efforts must be made to overcome the delay. What's more, some four-color ad pages are printed in Chicago and then sent by truck to U.S. plants for binding in the final copies...
...Waukee Airport, 30 miles away, began operating Sunday afternoon, and so did Meigs Field, a small facility on Chicago's lakefront. Serafin had a helicopter leased at Meigs and flew the film to Pal-Waukee, where the waiting Learjets immediately departed. Serafin was also finally able to get the ads through by truck, and the Jan. 22 issues, bearing the cover picture of Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, rolled off the presses on schedule nearly everywhere...
...Chicago Blackhawks for the first game-winner, the Buffalo Sabres for the next three. 2. Bert Olmstead and Maurice "Rocket" Richard of Montreal, Tom Bladon of the Flyers, and Islander Bryan Trottier. 3. Stefan Persson with 60 in 1977-78 for the Islanders. 4. Ken Dryden. 1971 Smythe winner, 1972 Calder winner. 5. Hardy Aastrom. 6. New York Islander Glenn "Chico" Resch stopped the Philadelphia Flyers' Bill Barber. 7. Pit Martin. 8. 1975: Islanders over Penguins: 1942: Maple Leafs over Red Wings. 9. Montreal Canadiens 1, Boston Bruins 0. 10. 39 years, since 1940. 11. 1974--Flyers beat Rangers...