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...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...
Clem Attlee waved his honorary union card and assured the grinning pressmen: "It's O.K." Then the Prime Minister pushed a little button, and the presses at Odhams' , started to roll. The London Daily Herald (circ. 2,131,824), British Labor's official newspaper, was 10,000 issues...
Fortunately, all of Snedaker's pressmen were on the job-thanks to the U.S. Embassy, which helped supply vaccine, and to a private physician, who administered inoculations at the printing plant. Unfortunately, one of the two presses ("the big, automatic one, of course") chose this inopportune moment to break down. By working the smaller, hand-fed press all night, Snedaker and his staff had TIME on the newsstands and in the mail a day before issue date...
Greta Garbo surprised a lot of people by turning up in England, surprised almost nobody by telling the pressmen: "I had hoped I would get off the ship unobserved...
Most people in St. Louis had no afternoon papers one day last week because the men who print them didn't like one of the news stories. George L. Berry, president of the A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union...