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...lowdown by devious methods. Across Twelfth Avenue from Pier 90, in a waterfront joint called the Anchor, Queen Elizabeth's crew gradually spilled the beans. Whoever would talk got free drinks. Some of the men were reticent and asked not to be quoted. Senior Printer Pearce Jones not only consented to be quoted; he insisted. "I am protected," he said, "by the Typographical Society of Great Britain and Ireland." Greaser Tom Barber and Fireman Jim O'Brien and Engineer Peter Johnson were in fine form. Oiler Jack Sykes babbled in Cockney. Gradually the story took consecutive shape...
...Billy was a veteran of two wars, knew a lot of bawdy jokes and enjoyed telling them. To amuse his customers he started writing them down on a mimeographed sheet, named it Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Salesmen, bellhops, race-track followers, schoolboys began to buy it, a printer agreed to bring it out as a monthly magazine, and Whiz Bang suddenly shot off like the shell it was named...
...turned the old press over to the Franklin Institute for a permanent exhibit. It was probably the oldest U. S.-made printing press in existence. After gathering dust for some 60 years, it still worked well enough to run off souvenir copies of the Institute's program, for Printer M. J. Smith (see cut), who had operated the same press when...
Lately they have eyed offset printing, a lithographic process used mostly for reproducing pictures. Offset is cheap because it does away with engraving, form makeup, stereotyping-all standard processes on a daily paper. The printer simply photographs a page of copy pasted up on ruled boards, transfers the negative to a zinc plate, prints from an inked rubber roller...
...date the committee has been largely concerned with selecting its engraver, printer, and photographer, all of whom have been determined. Pictures of the class have been taken by the Sargeant Studio in all the Houses and in Dudley; biography blanks for all Seniors will be sent out shortly after Christmas vacation...