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...Also-ran: New York City's 144-day newspaper shutdown two winters ago; a pressmen's strike against Detroit papers that ended in November after 134 days...
...goes on to say that the book is "a must for compositors, pressmen, and proofreaders." Now I admit that with proofreaders like the ones you've got, any reading at all might help. But it is obvious to any student of Miss Peruty's that The House on the Sound is by far the least interesting of her books typographically. Although I am merely an amateur as far as printing is concerned. I noted immediately the flawed quality of the 9-point Granjon Bold. In several instances the lower' case 'm' was disrupted by a slash across the base...
...cocktails, conversation and shoddy (hurried?) printing make this a must for compositors, pressmen and proofreaders...
Last summer, when Detroit's pressmen walked off the city's two papers, the Free Press and the News, one of the more interested observers was a 23-year-old graduate student in economics at Detroit's Wayne State University. Michael Gordon Dworkin's journalistic experience was meager; in years past he had logged a little time on Wayne State's student paper, the Daily Collegian. But he did not lack for nerve. If the shutdown lasted long enough, he decided, an interim daily might make its publisher some real money. On the strength...
Since this was almost exactly what the papers had asked for, what had Frazee's strike accomplished? When the papers get back into business this week, his pressmen will be getting substantially the same contract terms that all but one of the other unions agreed upon before the strike began. And since Frazee had already given in on all other demands, his prolonged intransigence netted the pressmen little more than the right to claim that they had spun out the city's ninth newspaper shutdown in nine years to a record 131 days...