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Today, Boston's seven publishing houses--Little, Brown; Houghton Mifflin; Ginn; Beacon Press; D. C. Heath; Atlantic Monthly Books; and Allyn and Bacon--bear little resemblance to their ancestral forebears. The monotype and the large commercial enterprise have supplanted moveable type and the hand craftsman. Where once a printer set every individual letter, made a separate impression for each page, and bound them all under a fine leather cover, now machines handle almost every phase of the printing process...
When Millionaire Printer John F. Cuneo bought control of Chicago's ailing National Tea Co. in 1945, he grumbled that he was taking on "the worst chain-store property in the country." From Harley V. (for Vincent) McNamara, who had talked him into the deal, came a soothing answer: "That's what's so good about it-it can't get any worse." As National's new president. Optimist McNamara soon proved that it could get a lot better...
...Fathered he is, yet he's fatherless." This is an obvious printer's error and should read...
...George Parke, a retired printer in Farmhaven, Miss., sat down to write a piece of all-but-forgotten history. In 1,628 words, he told a closely detailed story of the New Orleans Mafia lynching of 1891. A mob, led by a band of riflemen, broke into jail and murdered eleven Italians, some of whom had been tried and acquitted in the death of New Orleans' police chief. The lynching had become an international incident: U.S. and Italian relations were broken off. When Parke finished his story, he sent it off to TIME's supplement, LETTERS, where...
...Silliman Jr. was carefully trained by his hard-driving father. He broke in as a printer's devil at eight, sold newspapers on the street, learned to use a camera, did some reporting. At 18 he joined the Air Transport Command, became the ATC's youngest wartime pilot, landed the first U.S. transport plane in liberated Paris. After the war Silliman Jr. took over two smaller dailies then owned by the company; Both he and his brother are well aware that they must move fast to live up to their father, described in his early days...