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...them altogether, deployed from the Mail Room to the Morgue, performing the time-honored function of office boys & girls everywhere. For us, they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum. One office boy does nothing but track down lost people (somebody's office in TIME gets moved every...
...interesting gadget now being installed in communications companies' offices the world over is the automatic teletype printer-a kind of typewriter-substitute for the time-honored telegrapher's key. You can type out a message on the keyboard, have it automatically transmitted overseas by radio or cable circuits to come out in print on a teletype at the other...
...just as an irate printer was about to destroy the plates for nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift of the venture to the University of Chicago. Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine...
...bound copies of a local newspaper (which went back 20 years but were of no use because they weren't indexed). Somebody contributed an encyclopedia, and the Public Library was close by. On closing nights the staff carted the usable part of the morgue by subway to the printer's and checked late copy while the issue went to press. As late as 1929 an office boy with a dolly could move it in half an hour-and sometimes...
Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...