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David Schine, a subcommittee staff member, hustled to a telephone booth in the corner of the big hearing room in the Senate Office Building. It wasn't long before McCarthy told reporters word had come back from Philip L. Cole, deputy public printer, that Rothschild had been suspended immediately without...
...widened the scope and number of course that an unseen difficulty arose. It was no longer possible to chalk up examinations on the blackboard, and nothing but printed exams seemed ractical. So, in that year, Eliot bought himself a press and the services of a second-rate journeyman printer, installing them both in a nook of University Hall's basement. All was well, for a while, and Harvard was launched on a printing career. But within a year or two Eliot discovered that his printer was supplementing his wages by selling copies of the exams to students even before...
Adam K. Wilson (no relative of the management) was plant supervisor at the University Press when Eliot came there looking for a Harvard printer. An eminent craftsman, Wilson was fine choice, and remained chief printer for Harvard until his retirement in 1931. From the beginning of Wilson's stay until the late '90's the Printing Office grew in importance, doing all of the University's job printing, and finally printing the University Catalogue. It grew so rapidly that J. Bertram William '77 was appointed as publication agent to smooth over public relations between the Printing Office and faculty members...
...soon as a printing order comes in, one of the staff takes over, selects the paper, picks an engraver, chooses a printer and schedules the job. "The important thing," says Bethke, "is to fit the job to the equipment which can do it best and most economically. The kind of job and the equipment of various plants are controlling factors in who does the work...
Bethke began to learn about type at the age of eleven in Groton, S. Dak., when he got a job as printer's devil on the local paper, the Groton Independent. His tutor was Shop Foreman John Thoeny, who now owns the paper. Bethke worked before and after school and all day Saturday for a salary of $3 a week. He began to learn hand composition, then linotype, layout and makeup. After graduating from high school, he worked as editor of the paper for a year before going to Dakota Wesleyan University. During summers he toured the Midwest...