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...added, along with his own, the names of two women who had nothing to do with the magazine. For an office, he rented a basement room under a speakeasy at 1 Minetta Lane, in Greenwich Village. When the first issue of 5,000 copies arrived from the Pittsburgh printer, Wallace hired barflies from the speakeasy to help him and Lila wrap and address them. They piled the mail sacks into a taxicab, took them to the post office, then stopped in a café to toast the future...
...Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La., the blind editor-patient okayed the last story as it was read to him. Compositor-patients put the paper to bed. Printer-patients ran off 8,000 copies. Then the whole press run was baked, to sterilize it. Last week the tenth anniversary edition of the Star went out to subscribers in 48 states and 30 foreign countries. The Star's single-minded editorial objective: to knock down misconceptions about Hansen's disease, as the 400 Carville patients call their illness-in popular parlance, leprosy...
...increase their sales appeal. "I might feel that a brilliant red would give the appropriate feeling," Hasui sighs, "but if he prefers a dull orange, a dull orange it is." An engraver makes as many as 20 color blocks (separations) of Hasui's finished picture, and an expert printer runs it off in editions of 200. This is precisely the procedure which his great forerunners followed...
...Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used the name "Ted Smith" for "business purposes. "Then came the biggest headlines of all: Printer Bonney had kept part of the "Ted Smith" land, but had deeded many of the lots over to the retired county treasurer, William F. Vahlberg, whose office had run the tax sales...
...production. He turns on his tape-receiving machine early in the morning, gets all the out-of-town shorts and headline news stories he can use during the seven-hour run. Under most setups, he can find out what he is getting on tape by reading a companion printer which types out stories in sentence form, then he can either chop the tape to edit his stories or edit them in type. By press time, his tape-fed typesetters have clanked out the day's ration...