Word: linotypists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the book's charm is typographical, as if the pages had been set by a drunken Linotypist, and often defies being read aloud. In His Own Write is a hit in England, where it is quoted at tea tables and praised in the Times Literary Supplement ("worth the attention of anyone who fears for the impoverishment of the English language"). Lennon simply says that he enjoys writing and admits only to a small debt to Lewis Carroll: "It just comes out. I sit down and write and this is what happens." The T.L.S. glurbles: "He must write...
While the CRIMSON had numerous advantage several disadvantages in the war with the Journal, the real hero was Arthur Hopkins. From 1929 right up to the present, chief linotypist Art has been the hero of the nightly "Battle of the Bilge." It was he who guided the inexperienced editors through the 100 Days War, and it was Art who again recued the CRIMSON during the Second World...