Word: handsetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linotype got a renewed lease on life in Chicago last week, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, announced a new typesetting process that it hopefully predicted would make the linotype as obsolete as handset body type. The machine (suggested names: Lumitype, Anti-Type, Any-Type) does away with casting of type metal, "sets type" photoelectrically on film instead...
...like going back into another century when John and Mary explored the faded old white house where the handset, rundown Journal had been published for decades. Blocking their way was a weird jumble of cardboard boxes, auto parts, dried nuts, empty jars, tin cans and old metal. In a stack of unopened letters...
...they do not tell in the book, and neither does anyone else. Most whodunit fans will find Blood on the Dining-Room Floor an elaborate leg pull. It is also an expensive one. Beautifully printed from handset type, handsomely bound, the initial edition (626 copies) sells for $6. As an example of the bookmaker's art, it is a delight to hand & eye. But anyone who buys it merely for the plot deserves to have his nose rubbed in three of Author Stein's sentences: "Out of what. Out of nothing. Silly that...
...plump, amiable Turner Catledge, 43. Generally considered a better reporter than editor, he gave up a reporter's "dream job" as roving political correspondent for the Times, moved in as assistant to Managing Editor Edwin L. James. Born in Mississippi and brought up there, journalistically, on a handset weekly paper, Catledge has been a Timesman since 1927, except for a brief, unfortunate period as chief correspondent, then editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun during its uncertain infancy...
...paper bit by bit on the black market. Under the pseudonym "Vercors" he also wrote the Editions' first volume, Le Silence de la Mer (later translated as The Silence of the Sea and published in LIFE Oct. 11, 1943). Working secretly nights and Sundays, Underground Printer Ernest Aulard handset the Editions' first volumes, later managed to obtain a linotype...