Word: copyboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry Grunwald's career reads like the script of a Frank Capra movie. At 15, he fled his native Vienna after the Anschluss swept Austria into Hitler's Reich. He honed his English in movie theaters while attending New York University and started at TIME as a copyboy. Now at retirement age, he is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Time Inc., only the third person in 64 years to hold this position...
...regular cup of coffee and a sugar donut, unless of course the people at work had sent me to pick up an order. I was often dispatched to Al's last summer to pick up hot bagels with cream cheese and assorted other newsroom commodities. My experience as a copyboy at the New York Times convinced me that journalists always crave food. The illustrious editors and reporters always seemed to be snacking on something, consuming some journalistic staple like french fries with no ketchup, or a bag of Doritos. Going to Al's gave me a chance...
...stint as a copyboy at the Times lasted 12 weeks. A budding journalist's dream, you say? Heaven for the collegiate reporter? Let me take you into the newsroom on the third floor, show you my stomping grounds and the various roles I played there...