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...previous issue are closely heeded. Head of Ward's catalog enterprise is Vice President Frank Folsom, who disclaims the title of editor. Under his eye work 52 copywriters, some 600 artists and layout men. When, after 11 revisions, the page proofs are completely corrected and back to the printer, the editorial job is done. "Editor" of the Sears book is bespectacled Donald M. Nelson, who likes to keep out of the spotlight as much as does Ward's Folsom...
Christened on the spot by Whitelaw Reid, the Linotype thus had its first commercial demonstration. Within a year or two it was to prove the most important single development in the printer's art since Gutenberg's invention of movable type more than 400 years before. In making the solid slug of type, Mergenthaler's invention opened the mechanical way for the multi-editioned metropolitan newspaper, the flood of books, pamphlets and magazines on which the 20th Century was floated into being...
...actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before graduation he married Laura Hall, daughter of a wealthy Kansas printer, after graduation settled briefly in Kansas City, Mo. before moving back to Topeka...
...from the confessional type of memoirs as Tom Thumb from Jumbo the elephant. Fellows' life has been a three-ring circus, and he presents it in those terms. He ballyhoos himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic flower nurtured in a pot of printer's ink, a product of the freedom of the press." True to his profession, he says he has done his best to tell the truth, adds: "Occasionally my tongue slipped into my cheek." No one who has ever been to the circus will mind that...
Perspiring in Washington day & night last week was the U. S. Bureau of Printing & Engraving over the 37,000,000 $50 bonds which on June 15 will gladden the hearts of some 3,500,000 U. S. Veterans. In somnolent and leafy Princeton, N. J. 200 miles away, another printer had just rolled off his presses the last of 250 smartly inscribed invitations which, to him and his customers, were quite as significant as the Bonus bonds...