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...Wendt had printer's ink in his veins long before he came to TIME, for he put himself through Harvard for his Ph.D. in science by working as a reporter on the Davenport, Iowa, Democrat...
When their old press broke down in midrun, Donahue and Bearse talked a Boston printer into finishing the run. On the way to the plant with the page forms, they saw a girl about to jump off a bridge. They grabbed her, took her to a hospital, then went on to the printshop. The following night, after 72 sleepless hours, they got the first issue of the Moderator off to their customers...
Penny Dreadfuls. S. & S. goes back to 1855 when Printer Francis Shubael Smith and Bookkeeper Francis S. Street took over a broken-down fiction magazine. They added a few magazines of their own, and reached a pulp peak during the long presidency of Smith's son, Ormond, who loved fine wines and rare first editions. Ormond Smith kept presses busy pouring out dime novels (they usually cost a nickel...
...Minister of Labor George Isaacs, 62. Isaacs, who is a leader of the powerful Trades Union Congress, began his ministerial career by settling a serious railwaymen's strike twelve hours after taking office. A onetime printer's devil, he went to Buckingham Palace for his seals of office in a grey flannel suit, because "I hadn't the time to get myself up all posh...
Three years ago, when Liberty was dropping a million dollars a year, Printer John Cuneo took it over for the printing bill, and decided to keep it going rather than let his huge presses stand idle. He called in his ace magazine salvager, handsome ex-Hearstling Paul Hunter, who had rescued Screenland, Silver Screen and Movie Show for him. Hunter ordered Liberty's circulation pulled up out of the barbershop trade, to reach people with more buying power. At first, under Hunter, circulation continued to drop...