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...told George the instant it passed," said Snedden later, "but damn it, he winked or signaled to someone, and the word got out to the newsroom and the streets. Sirens started blowing, horns honking, people shrieking and yelling. It cost me 20 minutes in long-distance time just waiting and fiddling with my hearing aid until things quieted down enough for me to give George the details for the special edition. It was probably the happiest money I've ever wasted in my life...
Alarmed by newsroom turnover, ailing Publisher Marshall Field Jr. last February moved able Pete Akers upstairs to a seventh-floor executive suite. Into the fourth-floor office as assistant executive editor and working boss of the news staff went studious Larry Fanning, 43, onetime (1941-54) managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, who has been editor of the Sun-Times syndicate since 1955. But the staffers' exodus continued. To stem it, Publisher Field, though already hard pressed for news executives, last week persuaded Tom Reynolds to quit...
...that you are always being told things in confidence, and if a reporter belongs to a group and learns things in confidence, he can't do a good job as a reporter." Editor Fred W. Stein of the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press extends the ban to employees beyond the newsroom: "A newspaper can be thrust into an embarrassing situation on a controversial issue by actions of one of its advertising men as well as by its staff writers or editors...
Disappearing Copy Desk. But often Sammy's risks ran as high as his interest rates. Once in Chicago he ran out of money himself and went to the old Examiner office seeking a loan. When he walked into the newsroom, the whole copy desk except the slotman ducked for the washroom. They were all former St. Louis newsmen who had left town owing Sam money...
CRIMSON facilities include a large and teeming newsroom, an Associated Press teletype machine, and a modern, well-equipped photographic darkroom. With its own cameras and a Fairchild engraving machine, the photo board has the most up-to-date equipment for producing consistently good news and feature pictures...