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...secretary, Jim Hagerty, unlike some of his predecessors, e.g., F.D.R.'s Steve Early, Harry Truman's Joe Short, is always available to the press. He is a man of huge energy, is happiest when the work load is heaviest. He is respected by reporters as an expert craftsman who knows precisely what newsmen need and will do everything in his power to deliver the goods, e.g., he 'was out of bed by 6 a.m. each day for the first two weeks in Denver to see the President and issue a bulletin in time for the first editions...
Today, Boston's seven publishing houses--Little, Brown; Houghton Mifflin; Ginn; Beacon Press; D. C. Heath; Atlantic Monthly Books; and Allyn and Bacon--bear little resemblance to their ancestral forebears. The monotype and the large commercial enterprise have supplanted moveable type and the hand craftsman. Where once a printer set every individual letter, made a separate impression for each page, and bound them all under a fine leather cover, now machines handle almost every phase of the printing process...
...British Sculptor Butler's kinship with a Danish Bronze Age craftsman, see cuts...
...Craftsman. His day does not begin at his desk, but in prayer, for which he dons the traditional black-and-white prayer shawl and straps phylacteries (small leather cases containing texts from...
...words, traditionally improvised, are chosen with a craftsman's precision. Sample: "Anybody ask you who was it sang this song/Tell 'em little Jimmy Rushin' -he's been here and gone...