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...months when ink gets more fluid and it is necessary to cut down on the thinner; when high humidity makes the absorbent paper stick to the rolls and break; when artists have trouble with their art, photostats get off the beam (expansion-contraction again), and what the sweating printer (working in temperatures up to 100 degrees) has to say about it all is unprintable...
...Indian language" (uh-uh; uh-huh; huh). He knew all about U.S. jazz (he plays the piano, violin and banjo by ear). In Manhattan, Strand listened to Swingdom's blind piano player Art Tatum, his favorite, then went off reluctantly to California. But the Swedish speedster, a printer by trade, did not forget what he came over...
...poor boy and a poor young man. At 15, he went to work as a printer's devil. After he learned his trade he traveled the countryside as a journeyman printer with no baggage but a shirt, a fighting cock and a few books. Poverty kept him rebellious, but it also made him patient, diligent, capable of drudgery. He became an editor. At 30, by borrowing money, he bought the Lynchburg Daily News. Inevitably he got into politics. But he did not begin his real career until he went to Congress...
...voracious instinct for opportunity. He hired out to plow the eroded red soil with oxen, sold peaches to passengers on the Illinois Central's cars, wangled a job as a printer's devil. When he was 16 he left home, headed for the rich black Delta lands downriver, became a bookkeeper in a country store at Lula, Miss. In 1892, at 17, he went to Memphis...
Many Happy Returns. In Montreal, a holiday-bemused printer mixed up his plates, superimposed on income-tax forms a picture of a kewpie doll and the caption: "Happy Easter, Sweetheart...