Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life these exams. It is up to the library to find a system of protecting the exams from theft as well as making specific exams more easily accessible. When Lamont gets settled, perhaps the problem could be transferred there. The exams could be filed alphabetically at the reading desk. And since the exams do not come on uniform-sized paper, it would be convenient to paste the exams on cardboard sheets. Anyone who wanted to look at an exam could sign for it. The bound copies of finals ought to be kept here too, with duplicates in reserve...
...electrical wiring system has been rearranged with workmen still on the job putting double play connections in the house's "dark" rooms and repairing "pooped-out" desk lamps. Heating in the house is also being adjusted to relieve studying congestion on the first floor during cold periods upstairs...
...newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story. When he had one that suited him, he flipped it over to the man in the "slot" of the horseshoe-shaped copy desk. It read...
...Captain Joe Patterson, demanded that his headline hunters make their heads "understandable, applicable and bright." The man who keeps them that way is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), red-mustached William Bernard Murphy, 53, copydesk chief. A paper like the Daily News is only as good as its copy desk, and the desk is as good as its chief, who must combine speed, accuracy, zeal, bad temper, and a quick eye on guard for double meanings...
...night in 1937 the late Harvey Deuell, managing editor of the Daily News, told Murphy to "take over the copy desk on a temporary basis." The "temporary" basis became permanent; Murphy likes it-and the pay of more than $10,000 a year-well enough to turn down better jobs. Recently, when he lost an eye, he thought he might have to change; but his one good eye is still enough to oversee the output of his 14 "rim men." They are all experts at trimming and polishing copy, as well as heading it up. They are not hampered...